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CHAPTER 5 CONNECTING PERIPHERALS TO YOUR MAC
NOTE Many applications will open the Print dialog as a sheet, rather than a floating window,
as shown in Figure 5-9.
If you have multiple printers connected to your computer, you can select the one you want
to print to from the Printer drop-down menu (your default printer will be initially selected for
you). The Presets button allows you select any preselected print options you may want to use.
For most printers, Standard is the only initial option unless you save your own print options;
however, many photo printers include a few other options (different size prints, borderless
options, and so on).
Along the bottom of the Print dialog box are four buttons. Print will send your document to
the printer. Cancel will close the dialog box without printing. Preview will open your document
in the Preview application that will give you an onscreen representation of what the printed document
will look like. PDF will open a submenu that will provide you with various options from
creating a PDF file from your document.
NOTE All of Mac OS X’s graphics are PDF based; as such, you will find that it can create a PDF
out of any document from the Print dialog without any additional software.
For more options for your printing, you can extend the Print dialog by clicking the invertedtriangle
button (the Disclosure button) to the right of the selected printer. This will provide many
more printing options (Figure 5-10).
Figure 5-10. The extended Print dialog box provides many more printing options, depending on the
print driver and the application.
The extended Print dialog provides a number of additional print options. The standard
extended elements include a preview of the document, the ability to print multiple copies of the
document, the ability to print only a range of pages rather than the entire document, the ability
to adjust paper size and orientation, and the ability to scale the document up or down. However,
numerous other options are available from the drop-down menu. This menu includes application
options, options associated with your printer’s features, color-matching options, advanced
paper-handling options, scheduling options, fax options, and more.