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Chapter 14. Printing, Faxing, Fonts, and Graphics The Macintosh may be only the eight-percent solution in the mainstream business world, but in the graphics and printing industries, it's the 800-pound gorilla | Chapter 14. Printing Faxing Fonts and Graphics The Macintosh may be only the eight-percent solution in the mainstream business world but in the graphics and printing industries it s the 800-pound gorilla. You d better believe that when Apple designed Mac OS X it worked very hard to keep its graphics and printing fans happy. This chapter tackles printing faxing fonts graphics ColorSync and PDF Acrobat files which Mac OS X uses as an everyday exchange format one of the biggest perks in Mac OS X. . Mac Meets Printer One of the biggest complaints about the original Mac OS X was that at the outset not many printer companies had rewritten their printer drivers the software that controls various printer models for Mac OS X. Fortunately the situation has improved Today s Mac OS X comes with hundreds of printer drivers from Epson HP Lexmark Canon and others. . Setting Up a Printer One beauty of Mac OS X is that setting up a printer for the first time is incredibly easy. The first time you want to print something follow this guide 1. Connect the printer to the Mac and then turn the printer on. Inkjet printers usually connect to your USB jack. Laser printers generally hook up to your Ethernet connector. If you re on an office network the laser printer may already be connected somewhere else on the network saving you this step. If you re hooking the printer straight into your Mac s Ethernet jack you may need an Ethernet crossover cable to connect it rather than a standard Ethernet cable. 2. Open the document you want to print. Choose File Print. In the Print dialog box choose your printer s name from the Printer pop-up menu or one of its submenus if any . Cool Wasn t that easy Very nice how the Mac autodiscovers autoconfigures and auto lists almost any USB FireWire Bluetooth or Bonjour Rendezvous printer. Have a nice afternoon. The End. Oh unless your printer isn t listed in the Printer pop-up menu. In that case read on. 3. From the Printer pop-up menu choose Add .

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