Chapter 6. Printing

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Sooner or later someone says, “Can you print that out for me?” This means getting what's on your screen out of your Mac and into a printing device of some sort.

The printer slaps some black or colored stuff onto paper or plastic, and there you are.

Whether your “hard copy” looks better or worse than what appears on your Mac screen depends on whether you've chosen the right printer for the job, plugged it in correctly, and set it up with the right software on your Mac.

As you'll see, a printer that does a snazzy job with black-and-white text, for example, may make smudge work out of scanned photos that look ...

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