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is created, you can select the pool when printing, and your Mac will send the
job to the first printer it detects that isn't already busy or offline.
Alas, printer pools aren't perfect. You're given no indication of which printer
has printed the job. If you create a pool that, for example, includes printers
on different floors of the building, then you'll have to visit each until you find
your output!
Creating a Pool
To create a printer pool, open the Print & Scan component of System Prefer-
ences. In the list of printers on the left, select the printers you want to include
by holding down
SHIFT
or
COMMAND
when selecting them (just as you do when
selecting files). On the right of the panel, a new button will appear: Create
Printer Pool. Clicking this will let you create the pool, and the final step is to
give it a name. Once you're done, you'll see the printer pool appear in the list
of printers on the left.
All you need to do in the future is select the printer pool you created from the
File→Print dialog box within any application, in the same way you'd select a
single stand-alone printer. Printer pools have their own print queue, the icon
for which will appear in the Dock when you print.
Deleting a Printer Pool
Deleting a pool is just like deleting any other printer: open System Preferences,
select Print & Scan, select the printer pool in the list on the left, and then
click the minus button at the bottom of the list. Then click Delete Printer [sic]
in the dialog box that appears.
Tip 179
View Photo or Movie's Hidden Info
When you open an image in Preview or a movie in QuickTime Player, hitting
COMMAND
+
I
will bring up the information window that will show every scrap
of technical and metadata information about the file, including EXIF data in
the case of images (click the “i” icon, and then select the EXIF tab). Hit
COMMAND
+
I
to hide the info window again.
