Managing Print Jobs

To see the jobs printing off a printer, you can double-click the printer icon from the
Printers applet. It opens a dialog box that shows you what’s printing. From here you can
select certain jobs and select to Pause them or Cancel them, if necessary. The print
queue window shows you the print job’s document name, status of the printing, owner,
number of pages, size of the job, time and date it was submitted, and port.
In some locations, printers are set up with servers and a special team of administrators
handles them. In smaller environments, printers might be connected to certain users’
machines while others in the office print documents “through” those systems to the
printer.
In those cases, if you are the user who has the printer connected, you might want to be
aware of how to manage these jobs so you can do things like stop one job to make sure
another job prints first, and so forth.