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Note
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When the printer software is first installed, background print-
ing 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.
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Sometimes, depending on the system environment, printing
will fail to start when background printing is enabled. If this
happens, disable background printing and print your docu-
ment using 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 appears only when bac kground printing is on. When back-
ground printing is on, and y ou choose Pr int to star t 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 bac kground, you can star t using y our Macintosh f or other
tasks.
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).
MACINTOSH – Using Background Printing
