2Using Your Printer Software

Desktop Printing

Desktop printing is useful when you have a number of documents to print at once, or when you have a document that is already formatted for printing on a particular printer. There are two methods to print documents from the desktop. To perform desktop printing, either:

Drag the icons of the documents you want to print to the desktop icon of the printer you want to use.

OR

Select the icons of the documents you want to print, then choose Print from the File menu. When the Print dialog box appears, select your print options, then click the Print button.

Checking Printer Status

You can tell the status of a printer by looking at its desktop icon:

Icon

Description

Icon

Description

 

 

 

 

 

Idle printer (default)

 

Printing stopped on

 

 

 

default printer

 

 

 

 

 

Idle printer (not default)

 

Error on default printer

 

 

 

 

 

Printing on default printer

 

Printer not available or

 

 

 

connected

 

 

 

 

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