Can’t print, won’t print.

Sometimes you send a job for printing and then wait for it, and wait, and wait, and wait. The printer is on, none of the ink has run out, there’s paper in the tray and still, no warning message, nothing. Assuming that the correct printer is selected in your system, what could be the matter?

More often that not a user may inadvertently press the “Pause Printer” button, and after repeated attempts at printing the document may end up with a print queue as long as your arm since sending a job to the printer which does not print merely adds the job to a queue. So, before clicking the “resume printer” button it is important to clear the print queue unless you want 37 copies of the same document in bright, expensive colour.

You can check the contents of your print queue at any time by just going to the system preferences and selecting the “Print and Fax” item - in the resulting window you can press the “Open Print Queue” button as in the picture above.