Jan 04
Have you noticed that when you print something off in Leopard the little printer app stays in your dock? Does it annoy you?
Right-click it and choose “auto-close”. Next time you print, it will close when it’s done spooling to the printer!
January 4th, 2008 at 11:24 am
What if you have a MacBook and no right click?
January 4th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Thanks for the tip, I’ve been wondering about that!!
Harry, ctrl-click = right-click too.
January 4th, 2008 at 11:44 am
You can right-click by pressing Control first. You can also go to System Preferences and in the trackpad section, enable two-finger tapping for right-clicking.
January 4th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
yeah, but you can keep it in your dock and drag files to it to print. Why not keep it in your dock for this awesome quick drag and drop printing?
January 4th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Gary, nice idea! I do the same for emailing attachments fast (drag to mail dock icon)
January 4th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Thanks for the tip
January 4th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Thanks!!! I was convinced it was a bug in my printer driver… or something. Awesome tip!
January 4th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
For some reason, this maneuver doesn’t work for me — the printer icon always stays in the dock even though I click on the auto-clear choice….
January 5th, 2008 at 2:12 am
Doesn’t work for me, too. I have a Lexmark 120n and it still stay in the dock when printing…
January 5th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Good tip but doesn’t work for me neither with my Canon IP4300, even if the “auto-close” contextual menu item is there.