22. Printing

In This Chapter:

Printing: An Overview

The Page Setup Dialog

Setting Options in the Print Dialog

Previewing Documents

Saving Documents as PDF Files

Printing Documents

Desktop Printers

Print Queues

The Finder’s Print Command

In a Mac OS, printing is handled by the operating system rather than individual applications. You choose the Print command in the application that created the document you want to print. Mac OS steps in, displaying the Print dialog and telling the application how to send information to the printer.

There are two main benefits to this:

• If you can print documents created with one application, you can probably print documents created with any application.

• The Page Setup and Print dialogs look very much the same ...

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