Choose Printer

Choose Printer is a desk accessory that shipped with very early versions of Macintosh system software, beginning with System 2.0 in April 1985. It was soon replaced by the Chooser in System 3.0 in January 1986, which remained a part of classic Mac OS through Mac OS 9.2.2.

Choose Printer came in the form of a single, modal dialog box. Most of the dialog box was in the form of a list of printers which were choosable (and that the Mac could use). To the right was an iconic switch to choose the port the printer was connected on (the telephone icon stood for the modem port, while the printer icon stood for the printer port. An option to switch AppleTalk to a connected or disconnected state was the last option in Choose Printer, with the OK and Cancel buttons immediately below.