Print From Your Computer : Macintosh Printing (Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6)

General Printing Preferences
You can select various printing preferences that will apply to all print jobs.
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Open System Preferences, and then open the Print & Fax utility.
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Click the Driver tab. You see this screen:
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Skip Blank Page to ensure that pages without text or images are not printed
Quiet Mode for quieter printing when Plain Paper/Bright White Paper is selected as the Media Type
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Click OK when done.