Apple 12/600PS manual Determining the status of a printer by looking at its icon

Creating, throwing away, and manipulating desktop printer icons

To create a desktop printer, select the printer using the Chooser. After you close the Chooser, the icon will appear on your desktop. See “Selecting and Setting Up the Printer,” earlier in this chapter.

You may also do the following with desktop printer icons:

mThrow away the icon Drag the icon to the Trash. You can’t throw away a desktop printer icon while the printer is printing a document. (You can create another desktop printer icon for that printer whenever you like.) Note: You must always have at least one printer icon on your desktop. If you throw away the last icon, it will immediately be created again.

mRename the icon Rename the icon as you would any other Finder icon. Click the name to highlight it, then type the new name. This changes the name of the icon, not the name of the printer.

mMove the icon You may drag the icon anywhere you like on the desktop. However, you may not move it off the desktop.

mCreate an alias for the icon You may create an alias for the icon as you would any Finder icon, by selecting the icon and choosing the Make Alias command from the File menu. The alias may be moved anywhere on or off the desktop.

Determining the status of a printer by looking at its icon

You can tell the status of a printer by looking at its desktop icon:

Plain icon indicates a printer that is not currently chosen for printing.

Default icon indicates the printer you have currently chosen to print on.

Printing icon indicates a document is printing on this printer.

Stopped icon indicates you have stopped the print queue.

Error icon indicates there is an error on this printer. Double-click the icon to see a message.

Disabled icon indicates this desktop printer is not available. See Chapter 13.

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