Chapter 30: Printing, Faxing, and Scanning
In This Chapter
Adding printers, scanners, and fax modems to your Mac
Configuring printers, fax modems, and scanners
Configuring settings in applications' Print dialog boxes
Setting print queue options for specific print jobs
Sending and receiving faxes
Using scanners
In an era of electronic documents, there's still a place for printed ones. When it's time to print a document, or send someone a fax copy, you need to ensure that your Mac is properly set up for the printers and fax modem you have.
OS X manages printing, faxing, and scanning from the Print & Scan system preference. Any devices listed in the system preference are available for applications that print, fax, or scan.
You can have multiple printers, faxes, and scanners configured for your Mac. Sometimes you have multiple devices connected to your Mac, sometimes you use different printers, faxes, and/or scanners at different locations and want your Mac to be set up for them, and sometimes both situations apply. Your Mac will recognize a printer, fax, or scanner for which it's configured when that device becomes available, but it must be connected directly or via the network to be able to set it up in the first place.
