| Tip 178 | Pool Printers for Quick Printing |
This is a tip for anybody who uses a Mac on a network and prints to network printers or perhaps has several printers connected to the Mac via USB.
One of the biggest issues with using a shared printer is that it might be busy or just switched off. To overcome this, Macs let you pool printers. Once a pool 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! ...
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