Quickly Print Files From Finder 5
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I am for ever sending files to the printer, for what ever reason, I want a quick way to print those files from Finder. Usually you would have to open the file in your chosen application, what for everything to load, go to print and then pick it up. That takes to long. This post will show you two quick ways to print a file without the need to setup all of the various settings. It will throw it out of your printer as quick as possible.
The first method is to use the print dialogue menu from the File menu within Finder. When you click this button the file will load in its respective program (except if it is a PDF), it will then send it to print automatically. There is one problem with this, it will use you default printer. If you have many printers it may not send it to the one you want. This method is quick but you don’t have much control.
The second method which is much more accurate is to make icons on the desktop. Go to System Preferences > Print & Fax select your printer, then drag this to the desktop. Let you computer whirl, my Mac located up for a minute, you will then have a desktop icon of your printer. You can then drag files onto the icon and they will print out. If you do this for all of your printers you can quickly print any document you want.
There is one small caveat with this trick, it will open up the program the file is associated with. If you have a word document, Word will open. It will then print the file automatically. One small hiccup but another than that its pretty nifty. If you are on the look out for a printer I recommend this Epson one, I use it at Uni and it works like a charm.
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5 Responses to “Quickly Print Files From Finder”
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Way awesome! Thanks!
The only thing I did different was to put the printer in my Finder Window’s toolbar rather than the desktop.
Comment By MacTipper on January 14th, at 11:06 pm
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hey that is a great tip! i have to sat though I found this great little laser printer the samsung clp 315 color laser printer. I just finished my second degree in nursing and print a lot of color materials. I got the printer in october and I still have 75% of the toner in the cartridges. the quality is great and the price was too only $150 usd. Check it out its a great value I was replacing toner cartridges every month and a half or so with a cannon printer. Just a tip on printers I thought I would share. James I was wondering if you got my post in early january about speeding up my Imac intel. I am not sure where to find the answer if you did if not can you maybe post some ideas about how to speed up a sluggish imac intel late 2007 version.
Comment By James KRALICKY on January 15th, at 5:30 am
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Thanks been wondering how to do this for ages!
GGComment By GG on January 15th, at 6:48 pm
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Hey there, neat solution for printing from finder. I have a bunch of large .pages files and I need to make compressed PDFs out of them. Any way to select the PDF maker from Finder or do you know of any PDF compression software that lets you dump multiple files at once?
Comment By andy s on October 18th, at 2:38 pm
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A great great tip! Thanx a lot! That saves a huge amount of time opening each file. Now it goes really quick!
One minus is that you can’t print 2sheets at one page, because the printer doesn’t give you the chance to choose different print options. Unfortunately.
Comment By Maxim on August 29th, at 9:36 am