Lesson 19. Set Up Printing

Goals

Set up your printers

Access the special settings for your printer software

Access the special settings for your applications

Share printers with other computers on your network

Learn some troubleshooting tips

Access the utilities for your printer

Printing gets easier and more reliable with every new operating system. The Mac recognizes and automatically sets up more printers with each OS X release. Individual applications can apply more special parameters to your print jobs. Sharing one printer with many computers gets easier all the time. Mountain Lion automates one of the most troublesome aspects of using a printer: When you connect a new printer, OS X checks to see if the proper printer driver is installed. ...

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