Apple 145B manual Controlling background printing

Controlling background printing

If you are using a LaserWriter or StyleWriter printer and the background printing option is turned on in the Chooser, you can continue to work while your documents are printing.

You don’t need to do anything once background printing is turned on. But if you wish, you can control background printing with PrintMonitor, a program that’s part of system software.

1.After you have started printing a document, choose PrintMonitor from the Application menu.

A few moments after printing begins, PrintMonitor opens automatically and its name appears in the Application menu.

				Name of the
				document being
				printed and
				printer in use
				Documents to be
hh		h		printed next (a
				selected item can
		h		be removed from
				the list)
				Click to set a
				print time.
Click to stop printing the			Description and status of the
currenthhh	document.		current printing job appear here.

You can use PrintMonitor to

mcheck the printing of your document

mcancel a document that’s printing or waiting to print

mset the date and time you want a document to print or postpone printing indefinitely

mcheck the paper supply

PrintMonitor’s icon blinks at the right end of the menu bar when the printer is out of paper. You can change this alert signal with the Preferences command in the File menu.

mcheck when to feed paper manually

PrintMonitor’s icon blinks at the right end of the menu bar to signal that you must confirm manual printing. You can change this alert signal with the Preferences command in the File menu.

2.Select the options you want, and then close the PrintMonitor window.

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