Apple Duo 270C manual Controlling background printing, PrintMonitor window

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.

You can use PrintMonitor to

n check the printing of your document

n cancel a document that’s printing or waiting to print

n set the date and time you want a document to print or

postpone printing indefinitely

n check 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.

n check when to feed paper manually

Click to stop printing the current document.

Name of the document being printed and printer in use

Documents to be printed next (a selected item can be removed from the list)

Click to set a print time.

Description and status of the current printing job appear here.

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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