Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: Enhanced Printing & Scanning
Printing and scanning will be enhanced in this summer's release of OS X Mountain Lion, offering a cleaner user interface with simplified menu bar buttons.
Replacing the Aqua-inspired customizable toolbar of the printer queue, Mountain Lion now offers a utilitarian menu bar with fewer, fixed icons that look more like those of Preview, Safari or Mail.
In the Printer view, Mountain Lion shows the same printer status and jobs information, but includes a thumbnail of your current job, which you can double click to view via Quick Look (Command Y also works).
The printer queue's Quick Look window sports a Sharing Sheet you can use to email, message or AirDrop the printer preview document.
In place of the large colored toolbar icons of previous OS X releases, Mountain Lion presents just four action buttons: delete, resume, pause and information. Rather than providing job information, this button pulls down the sheet formerly presented by the Printer Setup button (and essentially duplicated by the old Supply Levels button).
The scanning features of Lion are also enhanced in Mountain Lion, with a simple, automated scan interface presented when you click on the scanner button of a supported multifunction device.
Click Show Details and Mountain Lion presents the full scanner interface, with image correction and resolution settings, depicted below scanning an product page from Parallels.
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Because that nonsense needs to stop.
I am sorry but I think I missed it. Where are the enhancements? All I see is further movement towards a gray world.
Although the beauty (?) of the seldom-seen printer toolbar icons is now more subdued, check out the article text too: many other changes besides that one.
I wish there was just an easy printer... Printers now a days just don't "just work"
I just bought one last week for work, and it "just worked". I needed a laser printer with a duplexer, picked up an HP P2055DN and as soon as I plugged in the usb cable, it was recognized and I was printing my two sided documents. Running the latest Snow Leopard on a 3year old iMac.
I love not needing to even open HP's install cd.
Also does this open up AirPrint for all printers instead of HP printers?
I still use it so for me those are just differnt look of what I already know.
Obviously Apple will make those incompatible to promote "new way" so mountain lion sells while offering foolish tight coupling between application and document.
I really think about alternatives as this is not the same Apple I knew in 2006 when I would go for it blindy knowing it was going to be good.
I always thought my Brother PS&C was horribly slow and unreliable....turns out it was Preview all along.
oh please, as if i can get excited about printing in snow lion while I'm trying to DOWNGRADE to snow LEOPARD so I can print properly on my xerox 6010. #vomit
Snow Lion?
Snow Lion?
I think he meant Mountain Leopard.
I think he meant Mountain Leopard.
oh please, as if i can get excited about printing in snow lion while I'm trying to DOWNGRADE to snow LEOPARD so I can print properly on my xerox 6010. #vomit
I had some trouble initially printing to and scanning from my HP 6110 on a new Macbook Pro with 10.7.2 - after first adding the printer to get the software to load - I removed the printer - powered down the computer and the printer - then rebooted the computer and then the printer - and when added back again it worked perfectly.
I am sorry but I think I missed it. Where are the enhancements? All I see is further movement towards a gray world.
I don't get that either - I don't avocet bright gaudy distracting colors - but subtle clues such as color and even sound (cross fingers that Unsanity will get updates out soon) - can make the computer experience easier and better.
Apple should get the printing part right BEFORE adding more and better nonworking features.