[Typhoon14]

When printing in Leopard, the print queue application remains open after the print job is done. In Tiger and all previous versions of OS X, the application would quit automatically as soon as the print job was finished. It's very irritating to have to go and quit the application after every print job. Has anyone figured out a way to make this application quit after printing is finished?

[jwk]

This was making me mad, too. Figured it out by accident.
After a print job, or if/when you have a printer open in the dock, right click it in the dock and choose auto quit. I did this with one printer and it changed the setting on all of mine, but I don't know if it will work that way for everyone.
jwk

[Typhoon14]

Awesome. Thank you. How exactly Apple expected us to find this option I don't know, and why the default would be to leave it open I also don't know.

[JDW]

I had the same problem with my LPD printer queue not closing after the print job completed. This tip is very useful! However, we still need to pound on Apple to get this bug fixed. Having the queue stay open all the time by default is certainly NOT a wanted feature!

[James_Dempsey]

It may not be a wanted feature for YOU, but it's certainly welcome for many of us in a high-production environment. ;-)

[JDW]

But I would expect Apple to make decisions concerning OS "defaults" to be based on "the majority of Mac users." So is it really true that "the majority" of people buying Macs now are in "high production" environments? Even so, with all the versions of OS X Apple has put out to date, why change the default now? Again, it seems more like a bug to me rather than a logical change.

[redsee]

Thanks, this annoyed me too

[bummper]

This looks like an old thread, but here goes:

I am having this problem plus, after the job prints, the job hangs at "waiting for the job to complete" in the print queue. I have to open the queue and delete the (printed) job before the next job will print. Also, turning on the Auto Quit feature, does not work, it remains in the dock anyways.

I'm using the latest Leopard on an Intel iMac, latest firmware, etc., printing via a standard network print server over TCP/IP to an HP 2100TN with the latest driver. I have no way to direct connect since the printer is parallel only and the iMac is not.

Any suggestions?

[Tom_Diola]

I thought we answered this:

You right click on the printer on the dock and click the automatic stop or something like that ...

[Typhoon14]

He clearly says in his post that doing just that does NOT work?

Anyway, you might be better of creating a new topic for this, as it sounds like a separate issue than the one described above. I assume the reason the application is not auto-quitting is because it doesn't believe the the job is done.

[shagnthings]

I think this is a separate issue, which I'm also having. I don't care that the printer que stays open. What I do care about is the fact that the job stays in the que and remains printing status after I've already printed it.

Any luck on resolving that issue?

[gwc11713]

I'm having the same problem as you described... print job stays in the queue and remains printing status after it's already printed. This happens especially when more than one job is in the print queue. The only way to get the subsequent jobs to print is to delete the hung job & then the other jobs will all print properly. I'm printing to an HP Color LaserJet 2600n connected via USB. I've installed all of the latest HP printer drivers & still no luck. Any ideas? I'll start a new thread describing this problem so not to have it confused with the previously detailed problem.

Thanks for any help.

[rab777hp]

The answer is incredibly simple. Right-click, or ctrl click on the printer queue icon in the dock, and select autoquit, that makes is close when the jobs are done.

[drmarv2]

It may appear incredibly simple, but I do not have that option when I right click or control click. I can open finder or force quit. All of my various printers act this way. I have also "reset" the printers and reinstalled all of the printers.