Managing Print Jobs

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Installed Printer icon and name

You can customize the appearance of items on the Status Monitor 2 main window using the View menu options or using icons on the button bar.

If you’re monitoring multiple printers, you can reorder them in the Installed Printers list by clicking in the Printer Name, Status, or Job Count title bar.

When you start Status Monitor 2, you see the main window:

Printer Name,

Status, and Job

Count title bars

The number of print jobs waiting to print appears here

Brief status messages appear here

If you have more than one printer you want to monitor, you can add them using the Add Printers option in the Settings menu. To save your computer memory, you may want to delete any printers from the Status Monitor 2 list that you don’t need to monitor. To do this, click the printer in the Installed Printers list and select Delete Printer from the Settings menu.

The color of the Installed Printer icon indicates the printer status as follows:

Installed Printer

 

icon color

Status message

 

 

Green

Ready to print

 

 

Yellow

Paper and/or ink level is low

 

 

Red

Paper and/or ink is out, paper is jammed, or a

 

print or communication error has occurred

 

 

Other options in Status Monitor 2 let you view more details on the printer or job status, as described in the next sections.

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