Apple 12/640PS manual Select the printer using its desktop printer icon

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 the 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.

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

Shortcut: Select a desktop printer and press x-l to make that printer the default printer.

Select a new printer using the Chooser

If you don’t have a desktop printer icon for the printer you want to use, you must select the printer using the Chooser. The Chooser will then create a desktop printer icon for the printer that you select.

Select the Chooser from the Apple (K) menu.

Select the printer that you want.

Click the Create button to set up the printer.

Close the Chooser by clicking the close box in the upper-left corner.

When you click Create, the Chooser creates a desktop printer icon for the printer you selected.

Select a new printer from the Printer icon in the desktop menu

A printer icon is created next to the Help menu when you install the LaserWriter software. Only printers that have desktop icons associated with them are listed in the Printer menu. Selecting a printer from this menu makes that printer the default printer.

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