[OS X TeX] OT: Big Sur 11.6 & Printer Queue

[Richard Seguin]

I have 11.6 and a fairly old HP laser printer, and I just noticed that the printer icon is not disappearing from the dock either when there are no print jobs left in the queue. However, there is a Quit on a right click on the icon and it works. Another way to do it is to click on the icon as if to look at the queue and then do a quit from the menu.

A month or two ago I had to download updated HP print drivers from Apple because the old one works but throws up scary warning messages that the computer could be damaged if I proceeded (it didn’t, but it was annoying). I think Apple was forced to do this because HP seemed to be refusing to maintain print drivers for older printers and the HP website was no help.

Richard Séguin

> On Sep 21, 2021, at 8:36 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Ever since I installed macOS 11.6 the Printer Queue applications no longer Auto-Quit when empty. Ctl-clicking on the Dock Icon does NOT have an Auto-Quit option so there is no way to fix this. Note: other folks have noticed this too.
> 
> I'm just wondering if folks running the macOS 12, Monterey, betas see the same thing.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> herbs at wideopenwest.com
> 
> 
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