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Switching between printers

If you have more than one printer available, you must select which printer you want to use. The printer you select is called the default printer.

A bold outline around the desktop printer icon indicates that this is the default printer, where all your documents will print, until you indicate otherwise.

A plain outline around the desktop printer icon indicates that this is not the default printer.

To change the default printer, use one of these three methods, as described in the next sections.

mDrag the document you want to print to a desktop printer icon, and that printer automatically becomes the default printer.

mSelect the desktop printer icon and choose Set Default Printer from the Printing menu.

mSelect a new printer using the Chooser.

Note: Switching between printers may change how much information you can fit on a page. It’s best to choose a printer before you spend much time paginating the document.

Drag the document you want to print to a desktop printer icon

You can switch to a new default printer by dragging the icon of any document you want to print to the icon of the printer you want to use.

Select the printer using its desktop printer icon

If you already have a desktop printer icon for the printer you want to use, follow these steps to select a new default printer without immediately printing anything on it:

1Click the icon of the desktop printer you want to use.

A Printing menu appears on the menu bar at the top of the screen.

2Choose the Set Default Printer command from the Printing menu.

Until you choose another printer, the Print command will send your documents to this printer.

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