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Mac OS X Continually Amazes Me

One of our laser printers at work broke today (Error: 79.00FE) and a co-worker has about 20 documents in her queue to print to it.

Being that it's the day before Thanksgiving and there's only two Interactive/IT guys here I have to put on my IT hat and help out.

I installed a different printer onto her Mac and opened up the new printer's queue. On a whim and a prayer (I never in a million years expected this to work), I clicked a document from the broken printer's queue and dragged it to the new printer's window.

I think my heart skipped a beat when the new printer's window highlighted its border in blue, the way Mac windows react when things can be dragged to that space. I dropped the item into the new queue and the newly installed printer down the hall spun into action.

After a select-all and another drag/drop, all the printer items going to the broken printer were in line to print on the new one.

I'm really impressed because I didn't think that the printer windows would allow that.

Apple, you continue to impress me.

Bonus points to the first commenter to point out how many times the word "queue" is in this post!