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Need the First Available Printer?
If you’ve got a print job on your hands and you need it as soon as possible, but all the printers on your network are often busy, you can pool these printers together so your document will automatically print to the first available printer. Just go to the “Printer Setup Utility” (in the Applications folder, within [...]
Continue reading...Printing Problems? Try a Quick Fix
22. July 2009
A quick fix is a repair action that can be performed quickly, involves little or no risk of harm to the system, and has little or no cost. An experienced, efficient troubleshooter will try one or more quick fixes before taking on the more time-consuming tasks involved with isolating a technical issue. (The term “quick fix” [...]
Continue reading...How to Set a Default Printer
4. June 2009
Over time you may wind up with several printers set up for your Mac. This results in a list of available printers every time you go to print. If the default (the first one selected) isn’t to your liking you can always change it. To do so, bring up System Preferences and go to Print [...]
Continue reading...Default Printer Quality
27. May 2009
Q: How can you set a new default print quality in Mac OS X? A: You can make changes to any of the various panel options and then save that as a “Preset” instead of “Standard” and then select “Last Used Settings” as your desired Preset. ~ Bradley Dichter
Continue reading...New Printer Options
9. May 2009
Along with those of hard drives, the prices of printers have recently fallen to an almost incredible degree. It may be time for a reassessment of your printer needs or desires. Multifunctionals (”All in Ones”) The price of these has fallen to the point where a new integrated unit may be attractive to save some desk space [...]
Continue reading...Drag-and-Drop Desktop Printing
10. April 2009
Want the ability to print a document right from your desktop (without opening the application first)? Go under the Apple menu, under System Preferences, and choose Print & Fax. When the preference pane appears, click on the Printer Setup button, and when the Printer Info dialog appears, press Command/L to show the Printer List dialog. Your [...]
Continue reading...Wrong Printer?
6. April 2009
If you accidentally have the wrong printer chosen for a print job, you can open the correct printer’s window and drag the print job out of the wrong printer into the correct one. It works! ~ Linda Cameron
Continue reading...Having Problems Printing?
4. April 2009
If your print job isn’t going anywhere, open the Printer icon from the Dock (or go to System Preferences and get it from Print & Fax). Check to make sure you have the right printer selected. If that isn’t it, does the Printer show “Resume” or “Start” in the icons? Your printer may have been put [...]
Continue reading...Troubleshooting the Printing System
17. March 2009
Having trouble printing? Always check the printer queue application first. The print and fax queue application will always show the first symptoms of an issue, and odds are you were made aware of the issue by the queue. The print queue will let you know if there is a printer connection issue, but you should also check [...]
Continue reading...ICC Profiles
29. January 2009
Q: I have an Epson Stylus Pro 3800 printer and I’m trying to set up ICC profiles for Epson Ultra Premium Presentation Paper, but can’t find that in the “Choose Profiles” dialog. Can you help? A: Whenever you have a problem with ICC profiles, the first thing to do is head over to the manufacturer’s website [...]
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Antiglare Display Option For 15-inch MacBook Pro Now Available
If you prefer a display with antiglare coating for a matte rather than glossy viewing experience, an antiglare display is now available as a configure-to-order option on all 15-inch MacBook Pro models. This display has a silver aluminum bezel, which is the same as the 17-inch antiglare MacBook Pro display.Google CEO Schmidt leaves Apple board
In a statement, Apple CEO Steve Jobs cited potential conflicts of interest in explaining Schmidt’s resignation.
“Eric’s effectiveness as an Apple board member will be significantly diminished, since he will have to recuse himself from even larger portions of our meetings,” he said.
Apple is racing to offer a portable tablet-sized computer in time for the Christmas shopping season, in what the entertainment industry hopes will be a new revolution.
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10. August 2009
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