Mac os 14.1.2 move print job to another printer

Please add me to the list of disgruntled customers who strongly believe the printing software was better when it allowed the user more options. Stop taking away features and calling them product updates! The ability to perform this very simple function was an important feature in optimizing our workflow.

Looks like the UI needs some catching up. You can do it from the command line.

• Open Terminal
• Run `lpstat` to find the print jobs
• For each print job listed ("foobar_printer-XXX" where the name of the printer is "foobar_printer", and the print job is "XXX"), run `lpmove XXX new_printer`.

You'll see the jobs move in the UI.

It's one the things I really enjoy and always saw it as an operating system advantage between the other...

Also the function of displaying what was the print job having a preview when doble click, that also gone with this version :(

Same here!

Personally I had all the different printers attached to the dock to manage print jobs easily. I could live with the new interface for sure if the drag 'n' drop option would still work.

Hope this gets upvoted by many users.

We used this all the time at the office. Why would they get rid of this feature/function?

I've got the very same problem because we use multiple printers and sometimes I send my documents to print on the wrong one or the printer is not avaible for the job. It was great in the past ! Why could this not be implemented with the new Printer Center?

I have the same issue and it was not processed yet. I have multiple jobs in the queue and dragging it is not possible. And on some blogs it says to open two printer queues to drag between them and that is not possible either with OS 14.

Any other ideas?

thanks,

cj

I’ve got the same problem. Separate cue for each printer is way way better.

Thank you so much, this saved my day!

Upvoted to what end? Neither Apple nor Apple product teams participate (e.g. read/reply) to posts in these fellow user-supported communities, so comments posted here are never seen by the product development teams.

That is why one can directly submit a feature request to the macOS product team by the approved approach to contact them.

I would have thought that by now this would have been fixed! I hate that this function was removed...

You would think that process was performed on all printing in the pass 25 years. Would creating a generic postscript print file be the same?

this has nothing to do with the issue stated.

This helped me. I'll add that you can type lpstat -a to get a list of the printers.

This'll have to do until/if Apple decides to return a much-used feature of its printing system back to us.

I would expect when it arrived in the queue it was already processed by the printer driver into the commends of that printer model, and to move it I would cancel it and print to the correct printer afterwards