Canceling a Print Job

It happens to all of us. You wanted to print just 1 page of a 57-page document, but you accidentally started printing the whole thing. What can you do to save your ink and 56 sheets of paper? Fortunately, the solution is simple.

Once you've clicked the Print button and the print job is sent to your printer, a small printer icon will appear somewhere at the right end of the top GNOME Panel (usually to the left of the other items there), as you can see in Figure 10-10.

A printer icon appears in the GNOME Panel while printing.

Figure 10-10. A printer icon appears in the GNOME Panel while printing.

Just click that icon once, and a window showing your current and queued print jobs will appear ...

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