Printer Properties

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button-add- adds new printer for monitoring.

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Add Selected - adds selected printer or printers for monitoring;

Add All - adds all available printers for monitoring;

Close - closes this window.

button-remove- removes selected printer from monitoring.

Allow Audit - switches on or off gathering the information about print jobs for the selected user/group.

Allow Quotas - switches on or off the control over quotas of the selected user/group.

Auto Adjust Parameters - Check this checkbox if you want to switch  printing using EMF. You do not need to set this checkbox if printed pages are counted correctly. This enables automatic adjusting for optimal printer's spool settings. You can disable this adjusting when problems in printing occurs.

Typical settings before "Auto Adjust Parameters":

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Typical settings after "Auto Adjust Parameters":

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Color printer - Check this checkbox if selected printer is color printer. You do not need to set this checkbox if color documents are counted correctly.

Disable Downlevel Documents - Check this checkbox if you want to disable Local  and Remote Downlevel Documents printing on the selected printer. Read more about remote and local downlevel documents.

Quota policy - switches the quota mode. Read more about quota modes here.

The Printer Quota fields group defines a quota for the printer in pages (Printer Quota, Pages) and in money units (Printer Quota, Costs); amount of the used quota in pages (Quota Used, Pages) and in money units (Quota Used, Costs); amount of the remaining quota in pages (Quota remaining, Pages) and in costs (Quota remaining, Costs).

NOTE: If you set zero value as quota/limit, the Print Logger will ignore this parameter while checking quotas/limits.

Job limit, pages - using this option you can set a print job limit for each print job for selected printer. This option limits number of pages for each print job for this printer. If you set some value for this option, all jobs with pages number lager then defined value will be blocked.

Reset quota for printer - resets quotas for selected printer to start values. Software also resets quotas automatically based on Quota Basis value.

Reset quota for all printers - resets quotas for all printers to start values. Software also resets quotas automatically based on Quota Basis value.

Validate printers - Synchronize printers in configuration and printers in your system.

Refresh data - Refreshes printers' data.

The printer status is underlined in the Printer Status field. In this field the current status of the printer displayed. Status can be the following:

· "PAUSED";
· "PENDING DELETION ";
· "BUSY";
· "DOOR OPEN";
· "ERROR";
· "INITIALIZING";
· " IO ACTIVE ";
· " MANUAL FEED ";
· " NO TONER ";
· " NOT AVAILABLE ";
· "OFFLINE";
· " OUT OF MEMORY ";
· " OUTPUT BIN FULL ";
· " PAGE PUNT ";
· " PAPER JAM ";
· " PAPER OUT ";
· " PAPER PROBLEM ";
· "PRINTING";
· "PROCESSING";
· " TONER LOW ";
· "UNAVAILABLE";
· " USER INTERVENTION REQUIRED ";
· " WARMING UP ";
· " WAITING FOR JOB ".

Detailed information about values of the printer status you can learn in Windows help system.

Printer Jobs displays amount of the print jobs, which are placed in the print queue for the given printer.

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