Monitoring and Canceling Print Jobs on a Macintosh The HP LaserJet is a 600x600 dot/inch Black & White printer located in the GGCS Computer Lab in GEOL 315. Related Help Desk Files Choosing a Printer on a Macintosh Opening the Prit Queue You can monitor the documents that you have sent to the printer by moving to the Macintosh desktop. Double-click the printer icon that has a bold outline around it to open the Print Monitor window of the active printer. The Print Monitor window has four buttons: Stop Print Queue, Start Print Queue, Set a Time for a Print Job (clock), and Delete Selected Print Job (trash can). The top box in the window shows the print job currently being processed and printed by the printer. The bottom box shows any print jobs waiting in the print queue. Canceling a Print Job 1) Open the Print Monitor window of the active printer. 2) Click on the print job to be cancelled by clicking on its title in the Print Monitor window. 3) Click on the Trash Can icon in the Print Monitor window to delete the print job from the print queue. Stopping the Print Queue Most word processor files or simple graphics files will print very quickly. If a long document is sent to the printer, it may be possible to cancel it before it is finished printing. However, numerous pages will be printed before the printer stops and this can be expensive. To avoid sending jobs to the printer by accident, the print queue can be stopped. When the queue is stopped, all jobs will be held in the queue until it is restarted again. This way any mistakes can be removed from the queue before sending them on to the printer. 1) Single-click the active printer icon on the Macintosh desktop. 2) Select Stop Print Queue from the Printing menu. 3) Send documents to the print queue by using the Print command in the File menus of most programs. 4) Restart the print queue by selecting Start Print Queue from the Printing menu in the Macintosh desktop.
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