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25 Using the Print Backgrounder for Macintosh
Section 6: Using the Print Backgrounder
for Macintosh
The FotoFUN! printer driver for Macintosh provides a
background print utility called the Print Backgrounder. This
print utility is turned on or off through the Chooser. When the
Backgrounder is turned on, it allows you to conveniently
continue working in the foreground of your application while
printing in the background. When Backgrounder is turned off,
all print jobs are processed immediately in the foreground of
your application. The Backgrounder offers many helpful
features which are described further in this section.
A. INSTALLING THE BACKGROUNDER
The Backgrounder is installed by selecting the Install
Background Print Utility
option from within the printer
driverÕs installer program. This option is NOT selected by
default, so if you did not select the Backgrounder option when
installing the printer driver, it is most likely not installed. To
install the Backgrounder, simply go through the printer driver
installation procedure described in Section 5-B making sure that
the Install Background Print Utility option is selected. The
Backgrounder installs into the Extensions folder of your startup
drive. Once installed, Backgrounder will automatically open
and close with the start and finish of each print job. To
manually open Backgrounder, double-click on the Print
Backgrounder icon within the Extensions folder.
B. PRINTING WITH THE BACKGROUNDER
With the Backgrounder turned on in the Chooser, select Print
from the File menu to print your image. A message appears
telling you the image is being spooled to disk for
Background/Later processing. Once the message disappears,
background processing has begun so your application is free to
be used for other work.
The print job is processed automatically by the Backgrounder.
Other documents can be printed and, in turn, will be processed
by Backgrounder. While Backgrounder is running, you can quit
the current application and start another without disturbing
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