\nThe default Print dialog is quite basic: it provides a way to select a printer, enter the number of copies that are needed, turn on black and white or two-sided printing, and select which pages to print (see screenshot below, left). Click the Show Details button, and more controls are available (screenshot below, right).<\/p>\n
Media & Quality allows a choice of printer paper trays (if the printer has more than one) and media types (plain paper, glossy or matte photo, envelope…), as well as a slider that toggles the printer quality. Normal generally prints the document quickly and adequately, while best slows down the printing and provides more detail in the print job.<\/p>\n Layout is used to print more than one page of a document per sheet of paper, which is handy for printing thumbnails of a document. It’s also possible to print a border on a page, and turn two-sided printing on or off.<\/p>\n Paper Handling offers a way to have pages sorted (collated), define which pages to print, and set normal or reverse page order. It’s also where documents can be scaled to fit a specific paper size.<\/p>\n Cover Page is useful in offices where many people are sharing a common printer, as it allows each person to print a cover page before or after the document that can be used to separate print jobs.<\/p>\n Enabling the Expanded Print Details Dialog<\/strong> 1)<\/strong> Launch the Terminal app, which is located in the Utilities folder inside the Applications folder. You can also invoke Spotlight by pressing Command – Space, then enter Terminal to launch the app.<\/p>\n 2)<\/strong> Enter the following command string exactly as typed here:<\/p>\n defaults write -g PMPrintingExpandedStateForPrint -bool TRUE<\/p>\n 3)<\/strong> Press Return to enter the command. There is no confirmation that the command has been entered.<\/p>\n Now whenever the Print command is invoked in any app on the Mac, the expanded Print Details dialog appears. It looks similar to the screenshot below:<\/p>\n Disabling the Expanded Print Details Dialog<\/strong> 1)<\/strong> Launch Terminal<\/p>\n 2)<\/strong> Enter the following command at the prompt:<\/p>\n defaults write -g PMPrintingExpandedStateForPrint -bool FALSE<\/p>\n 3)<\/strong> Press Return to enter the command. Once again, there is no confirmation, but the standard Print dialog screen is now the default (see screenshot below).<\/p>\n Do you have any printing questions for Mac or iOS? Let us know in the comments, and we’ll see if we can answer them for you in a future Tech Tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After all the many years that we’ve had personal computers available, printing documents is still one of the more frustrating parts of the computing experience. Rather than just being able to send any document to a printer and have it print perfectly, we often find that it’s necessary to tweak settings to get just the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":44594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"class_list":["post-44582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-tips"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screenshot-0577.png\")
\nFor many Mac users, just clicking on the Show Details button for the occasional print job is fine. For those who do a lot of printing or who need to do special print jobs often — things like switching paper trays, making thumbnail printouts, etc… — having the expanded Print Details dialog appear every time can be a handy shortcut. To enable the dialog, we make use of a command-line string in the Terminal app. Note that if you’re not comfortable using Terminal, you may wish to just click that Show Details button every time or have someone who is comfortable with Terminal set this up for you.<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screenshot-0576.png\")
\nNeed to disable this new setting? There’s a command for that, too.<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screenshot-0575.png\")
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