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Creating, throwing away, and manipulating desktop printer icons
To create a desktop printer, select the printer in the Chooser. After you close
the Chooser, the icon will appear on your desktop. See “Select the Printer by
Using the Chooser,” in the section “Switching Between Printers,” earlier in
this chapter.
You can also do the following with desktop printer icons:
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Throw away the icon.
Drag the icon to the Trash. You can’t throw away a
desktop printer icon while the printer is printing a document. (You can
create another desktop printer icon for that printer whenever you like.)
Note: You must always have at least one printer icon on your desktop. If
you throw away the last icon, it will immediately be created again.
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Rename the icon.
Rename the icon as you would any other Finder icon.
Click the name to highlight it, then type the new name. This changes the
name of the icon, not the name of the printer.
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Move the icon.
You can drag the icon anywhere you like on the desktop.
However, you cannot move it off the desktop.
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Create an alias for the icon.
You can create an alias for a desktop printer as
you would for any Finder icon by selecting the icon and choosing the
Make Alias command from the File menu. You can move the alias
anywhere on or off the desktop.
Determining the status of a printer by looking at its icon
You can tell the status of a printer by looking at its desktop icon:
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Plain icon indicates a printer
that is not currently chosen
for printing.
Default icon indicates the printer
you have currently chosen to
print on.
Printing icon indicates a
document is printing on this
printer.
Stopped icon indicates you have
stopped the print queue.
Error icon indicates there is an
error on this printer. Double-click
the icon to see a message.
Disabled icon indicates this
desktop printer is not available.
See Chapter 5.