Apple 12/600PS manual Monitoring and controlling background printing, Choose what you’d like to do

Monitoring and controlling background printing

If you are using background printing, you can use the desktop printer features to monitor and control the documents that are waiting to print. To learn how to turn background printing on and off, see the previous section, “Printing While Using the Computer for Other Work.”

To monitor or control a print request, follow these steps:

1Double-click the desktop printer icon you’re interested in.

A window opens listing the documents that are printing or waiting to print:

Column titles (click to sort)

Documents currently printing

Documents waiting to print

Watching the status messages can be helpful when troubleshooting printing problems. When more than one job is waiting to be printed, a list of print jobs appears in the waiting list. When you sort the list by Print Time, it shows the order in which they will be printed.

2Choose what you’d like to do.

m To delete a print request, select its title or icon (by clicking it), then click the Remove button. (You can select more than one item at a time by holding down the Shift key while clicking.) You can also drag the icon for the print request to the Trash. Note that these methods delete only the print job (also known as the spool file), not the document itself.

m To put a print request on hold, click its title or icon to select it, then click the Hold button. The print request stays on hold until you select its title again and click the Resume button. You can also put the document that’s currently printing on hold by dragging it to the list of documents waiting to print.

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