Printer Selection Dialog

Use the Printer Selection dialog to select a printer. You open the dialog as follows:

EasyCopy: The Printers command in the Options menu.
Montage: The File > Printers command.

Windows

The information provided here refers to the Windows version. The dialog has a different look in the UNIX versions.

The dialog displays the current printer and its paper size selection.

You can also select printer directly from the Print dialog.

Printer
This is the printer you select. Your default Windows printer is automatically selected the first time you open the dialog. You can select any printer you have defined in your Windows system.

Printer Setup
Press Printer Setup to open the Printer Setup dialog in which you can select printer specific options (paper size, media type, input tray, print quality, color correction, etc.). The Printer Setup dialog is part of the printer driver you use for your printer.

UNIX

The information provided here refers to the UNIX versions. The dialog has a different look in the Windows version.

Use the Printer Selection dialog to select printer. You can open the dialog by selecting Printers in the File menu, by selecting Printers in the Options menu, or by pressing Printers in the Print dialog.

Select a Printer
To select a printer from the list you must highlight it (click on it) and press OK.

All Printers or Short List
Enable List All Printers to see a list of all printers installed by the System Administrator. Any printer you select from the full list will be included in your short list.

Disable List All Printers to see your short list. This is the default, so the first time you open the dialog you must first list all printers and make your selections to create a short list.

To remove a printer from the short list you must highlight it and press the Remove button.

The System Adminitrator has no short list. If you have root access you always have all printers listed.

Use System-wide Defaults
Enable Use System-wide Defaults to reset all options for the printer you select. Your previous defaults for the printer will no longer exist.

All options for the printer are created the first time you select a printer by copying the system-wide options set by the System Administrator. Alternate, private defaults are created any time you press the Save button in the Printer Setup dialog.

Add

System Adminitrator
Press Add to open the Add Printer dialog which allows you to install new printers and create print queues.

The Add button is dimmed unless you have root access.

Remove
Press Remove to remove the highlighted printer from your short list.

The Remove button is dimmed if you have enabled List All Printers.

System Adminitrator
Press Remove to open the Remove Printer dialog which allows you to remove printers and print queues.

Status
Press the Status button to get a display of the print queue status for the selected printer.

The detailed format of the status display depends on the platform and system you are using (the commands lpstat or lpq are used to build the the status part of the display). Here is shown an example:

Utilities
Press Utilities to open the Printer Utilities dialog. This button is dimmed if there are no utilities available for the highlighted printer.

Test
Press Test to send a test page to the highlighted printer. This button is dimmed if the printer is not a PostScript level 2 or 3 printer.

The test page provides an easy method to verify the printer's connection. You can use it in trouble-shooting situations: if you cannot print the test page you have a clear indication, that the problem is related to the printer connection

OK
Press OK to exit the dialog. The printer that is highlighted at the time you press OK becomes the current printer.