

Fortunately, there is a better way - create a printer pool: This can be useful, but it does sometimes mean your print job gets stuck in a lengthy queue when you assign it to one of the shared printers. (You'll find a bunch more keyboard shortcuts here.) How to beat the print queueĪ more complex tip: If you work in a shared office space, it’s possible you also share a selection of printers on the network. (You can also print elements of what’s on screen: Command-Shift-4 lets you define an area to capture, and Command-Shift-4 followed by Spacebar lets you choose and capture a specific application window only. You can then print the file from inside Preview or by dragging it to the Dock icon as described above. When you want to print the entire contents of the screen just tap Command-Shift-3 and an image of the desktop contents will be saved as a file to your Desktop (or add Control to the sequence to take an image and save it to your Clipboard for pasting into the app of your choice). There’s no single print screen command on the Mac, but there’s a workaround. But armed with the Dock icon tip above, you can simply drag & drop the document icon directly from the Spotlight search results onto the Print icon in your Dock and print from there, which can be considerably faster.

Typically, you’ll use Spotlight/Siri to find the item, open it and print from there. Here’s a fairly typical scenario: You want to print something, but you don’t know where it is on your Mac.
