Faster Printing with Quicksilver

Mark Fisher shares terrific tips on how to use Quicksilver Proxies for faster printing:

Use this method when you want to print files that are on the Desktop or are all in the same folder.

1. Select the files that you wish to print by Command clicking them.
2. Invoke Quicksilver (by default, ?–SPACE)
3. Type the name of your printer until QS displays its name e.g. “Lexmark”
4. Hit the TAB key to select the next pane.
5. Type “open” and select “Open File”.
   • I recommend making “Open File” the default action for when you type “open”. You can do this by Ctrl clicking “Open File” and selecting ‘Set as Default for “OPEN”.’
6. Hit TAB to select the next pane.
7. Type “current” until QS displays ‘Current Selection’.
8. Hit ENTER.
9. Your files should start printing.

Also check out how to use the “comma trick” to print multiple files. Great stuff.

After the jump is the video for the episode of The Merlin Show where I talked about using proxies to access application menus.

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Finally, don’t miss Robert’s tutorial on setting up proxies if this topic is new to you.