Apple 12/640PS manual Setting up job handling, Open the Extended Job Status category

Setting up job handling

You can specify how the printer handles jobs for each type of network. You can set the printer to maintain contact with the computer until all pages of a job are finished printing. This allows users to receive printer messages, such as a message telling them that the printer is out of paper, while their job is printing. You can also have the printer break contact with the computer once the print job has been sent to the printer (but is still being processed). This provides faster handling of print jobs by allowing the printer to begin processing the next job before all pages of the previous job are printed. However, users may not receive feedback about paper outages and problems such as paper jams until after their job has been processed and the connection has been broken.

You can set job handling for individual network protocols that you use.

1Set the communication switch on the printer to the Normal (in) position to select the custom settings.

The communication switch must be in the Normal (in) position, or the printer will reset the job-handling settings to the factory defaults when it is turned off or restarted.

Note: Changing the communication switch setting may alter some of your network settings. For example, when the switch is in the Reset (out) position, the default mode for the NetWare, TCP/IP, and parallel interfaces is AutoSelect; but when the switch is in the Normal (in) position, the mode could be PostScript, depending on how you set the communication settings. To change the settings, see “Viewing and Changing Communication Settings,” later in this chapter.

2Open the Extended Job Status category.

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