TAKING A PRINTER OFFLINEIN THIS EXERCISE, YOU TAKE THE PRINTER THAT YO...

Exercise 2: Taking a Printer Offline

In this exercise, you take the printer that you created in Exercise 1 offline.

Note Taking a printer offline causes documents that you send to this printer to be held on

the computer while the print device is not available. This process eliminates error messages

about unavailable printers in later exercises. Windows XP Professional displays such error

messages when it attempts to send documents to a printer that is not connected to the com-

puter. When a printer is offline, Windows XP Professional dims the icon and changes the sta-

tus of the printer from Ready to Offline to reflect that the printer is not available.

1. From the Start menu, click Printers And Faxes.

2. Right-click the HP Color LaserJet 4550 PS icon.

3. On the shortcut menu, click Use Printer Offline.