Printer Presets

Hereis how: Modify as many settings as you need in the Print dialog. Now choose Save As from the Presets pop-up menu. Give your printer setting group an appropriate name, and then click OK. Save printer settings as presets.

Selective Printer Sharing

If you have an inkjet or laser printer connected to your Mac via USB, you can share that printer with other users on your network. And if you have multiple printers connected to your Mac, you can share all of them. Your Mac must be turned on and awake for printer sharing to work, but…

Pooling Printers

Printer pools work like this: If you have more than one printer on your network, or maybe a couple of printers that are similar, you can group them together in a printer pool. When you choose a pool instead of a single printer to output a document from any application, your Mac figures out which…

Working With Desktop Printers

The concept is simple: an icon for your printer sits on the Desktop. Double-clicking the printer icon shows you the printeris current status along with which jobs are printing or waiting to print. Dragging a document on to a Desktop printer icon sends your file to the corresponding output device – A handy trick if…

Seiko Smart Label Printer 430

Introduction Seiko hasnit been in the Mac label printer market since the late 1990s, due to a decision that retooling their software for Mac OS 8 wasnit worth the investment. But after noticing a beta Mac driver in May, Mac support in June, and the units at Macworld in July, we had to get one…

Olympus Introduces New Cameras and Printers

Two upcoming products immediately caught our eye. First was the C-211 Digital Zoom Printing Camera, which can take 2.1 megapixel digital photos as well as generate instant Polaroid prints. This revolutionary joint technology venture with Polaroid will be available in October for $799. The other was the P-400 Printer, a USB and parallel dye sublimation…

Ask Dave - USB Printer Sharing, Crashes, & PCI ATA Controllers

USB Printer Sharing, Crashes, & PCI ATA Controllers February 25th, 2000 Borscht and Vodka, now THAT’s a good Thanksgiving meal! Yum! Oh… hello… you aren’t here for Americanized Soviet culinary advice are you? It must be time again for another issue of Ask Dave! Ah… well, let me take off my babushka and put on…