Alps Electric MD-1300, User Manual

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Note
When the printer software is first installed, background printing
is off. Once you have turned background printing on through
the Chooser, it remains on until you use the Chooser to turn it
off again.
Sometimes, depending on the system environment, printing will
fail to start when background printing is enabled. If this hap-
pens, disable background printing and print your document us-
ing foreground printing.
Using the Queue Monitor
Background printing is controlled through the Queue Monitor. Using the Queue
Monitor, you can view the status of print jobs, pause and resume printing, rear-
range the order of print jobs in the queue, and cancel print jobs.
The Queue Monitor only appears when background printing is on. When back-
ground printing is on, and you choose Print to start printing a document, the
Queue Monitor is automatically launched. The print job is quickly “spooled” (tem-
porarily saved to your hard disk), and then the Queue Monitor takes over the job
of feeding the spooled print job to the printer. Once the Queue Monitor has taken
over printing in the background, you can start using your Macintosh for other
tasks (including printing more documents, if you want).
To bring the Queue Monitor window to the foreground so that you can check the
status of print jobs, select Queue Monitor from the application menu at the upper
right corner of your screen (at the far right edge of the menu bar).
When the Queue Monitor window is displayed, selecting Close from the File
menu hides the window.
Using Backgroung Printing