Chapter 15: Publish or Perish: The Fail-Safe Guide to Printing

In This Chapter

arrow Connecting a printer

arrow Using Page Setup to prepare your document for printing

arrow Printing to most printers

arrow Mastering the printing process

When you want to get what’s on your screen onto paper, printing under OS X should be as simple as pressing the keyboard shortcut maccmd.jpg+P and pressing Return or Enter. Happily, that’s usually just how easy printing something is; when it isn’t, printing can turn into a raging nightmare. If you configure your printer and printing software properly, however, printing is pretty darn simple.

In this chapter, I scare away the bogeymen to help you avoid any printing nightmares. I walk you through the entire process as though you just unpacked a new printer and plugged it in.

Get OS X Mountain Lion For Dummies now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.