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Printer Manager
Printer Manager allows you to connect Output Manager to the printers on your network, establish the properties and capabilities of those printers, and monitor their status.
Output Manager determines which job can be sent to a selection of printers based on the capabilities of the printer. When there are multiple printers that can print the job, Output Manager uses either the round-robin or least- busy printer to assign the job to the printer.
A device
represents a printer and a port on that printer
(for
example, a specific IPP
port/ virtual printer on a FreeFlow Print
Server controller). It is possible to have more than one
device
that addresses the same
printer
.
NOTE: The options that are available to you within Printer
Manager will depend on your Output Manager access rights.
NOTE: Using the cursor to rollover icons displays information tips following a one to two second delay.
See Also
“Printer Manager Main Window” on page 3–1
“The Printer List” on page 3–2
“Adding or Removing a Printer” on page 3–8
“Editing or Viewing Printer Properties” on page 3–9
“Controlling Printer Behavior” on page 3–62
Printer Manager Main Window
The Printer Manager main window displays the following printer information:
Printer Status
• Printers Selected: Indicates the total number of printers selected in the status table below.
• Total printers listed: Indicates the total number of printers seen in the status table.
• Status: Presents printer information.
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Printer Manager
Status Menu
Automatic Update Menu
The Automatic Update menu allows you to set the interval at which the
printer
list is updated. If the Update Now button is clicked, the printer list is immediately refreshed regardless of the
Automatic Update setting.
The Printer List
The Status menu allows you to filter the list of printers by the current states of the printers.
• View All: This is the default selection that lists all the printers in the Output Management system.
• Running: Indicates currently processing jobs.
• Ready: Indicates that the device is not printing a job, but could print a job, if sent one.
• Stopped: Indicates that the printer is not printing a job due to an internal condition, such as a paper jam.
NOTE: If the printer is an iGen4 220 Perfecting Press and in
"Pass-thru" mode where only one controller is active, an icon will be displayed and a pop-up message will appear when the mouse is moved over the status of the printer. The message displays the status of the two controllers.
The
printer
list displays all of the printers in the system. Each row represents a
printer
and contains information about that
printer
.
All columns can be sorted by clicking the column header. The sort arrow shows which column is sorted and whether it is in ascending or descending order.
You can manage printer list selections from the Status menu.
Selecting Printers
Selecting the checkbox next to a printer name selects that printer
.
Clearing the checkbox next to a printer name cancels the
selection of that
printer
.
Selecting the checkbox in the column header selects all printers in the list. Likewise, clearing the checkbox in the column header cancels the selection of all the printers in the list.
Printer Name
The Printer Name column displays the user-designated name of each
printer assigned when that
device
was added to Output
Manager.
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Output Manager User Guide
Printer Manager
Printer Status
The Status column displays the current states of the printers connected to Output Manager.
• Printing: Indicates currently processing jobs.
• Ready: Indicates that the device is not printing a job, but could print a job, if sent one.
• Stopped: Indicates that the printer is not printing a job due to an internal condition, such as a paper jam.
• No Report: Indicates that no information can be retrieved from the printer.
NOTE: You can filter
printer
states displayed on the printer list
by using the Status menu.
Accept Jobs
The Accept Jobs column will either display Yes or No for each
printer . If Yes is displayed the printer
is accepting new jobs for
printing. If No is displayed the printer is not accepting new jobs.
Jobs
The Jobs column indicates the number of jobs currently residing at the printer.
Maximum Jobs
The Maximum Jobs column displays the maximum number of jobs that each
printer is set to accept. If a printer
reaches the maximum number of jobs allowed, the printer is not assigned additional jobs until the number of pending jobs is less than the maximum number of jobs allowed for the printer. An icon is displayed when maximum number of jobs limit is reached at the printer.
Printer job limits are determined by the administrator.
See Also
“Limiting the Number of Jobs at the Printer” on page 3–12
Location
The Location column displays the physical location of the
printer
, as described within Printer Properties.
Printer Model
The Printer Model column displays the brand and type of each
printer
, as described within Printer Properties.
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