Printer Icon on Dock must always be manually closed.

Whenever I print to any of my printers (local and shared), the icon for the printer appears on the right side of my dock. But the icon does not close and disappear. I must manually close them each time, and since I have several printers that I print to, I seem to always have a mess of printers showing on my dock where I have no need for them.
Is there any way to eliminate this issue? Can those icons be set somehow to close themselves and disappear when the print job has completed?

I don't know why, but Apple changed the behavior in Leopard. In Tiger the print task would auto-close when the job finished. In Leopard it stays open.
HOWEVER... just press and hold the mouse over your printer application in the dock. You'll get the pop-up menu as per usual, but look closely and you'll see there's a choice to 'Auto Quit'. Select that. You'll need to manually quit (it wont immediately quit just because you picked auto-quit), but the NEXT time you print something it will auto quit after the job is finished.
=)
Regards,
Tim

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