Drag queued print jobs between printers

Jan 24, '03 09:39:40AM

Contributed by: m_herbison

I like to print out things at work rather than at home. So when I find something to print and I'm at home, I just stop jobs (in Apps -> Utilities -> Print Center) to the work printer, print to the stopped queue, and then restart the queue when I get to work.

I came back from vacation with a bunch of stuff to print, but found that they had changed network printing from AppleTalk to IP/printserver. So I set up the new printer, but had all of these jobs left over on the old printer.

I was looking for some queue directories so I could drag the job document from one printer queue folder to another (like in OS9). I then found that I could just open the (old) job queue list in Print Center and drag the jobs onto the new printer. This is nothing revolutionary, just a nice feature I didn't know was available.

I don't know what limitations there are if your two printers are vastly different (postscript vs non?), but it works beautifully when they are similar.

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