Desktop Printers & the Desktop Printer Utility
When you use the Chooser to select and set up a printer, Mac OS may automatically create a desktop printer for it. As the name suggests, it appears on the desktop as a printer driver icon (Figure 68).
Figure 68. Desktop printer icons. In this illustration, the one on the top is the default printer.
Mac OS 9.1 also includes a program called Desktop Printer Utility, which offers another, more flexible way to create desktop printers for PostScript printers.
Desktop printers can be used for a number of things:
Identify and change the default printer.
Print documents using drag and drop.
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