Current Status menu
The printer illustration and message boxes on this menu give you detailed printer status information. The appearance of the printer illustration changes to reflect the current printer status, described in the upper message box. If a printer error occurs, the lower message box displays troubleshooting tips.
Printer Information menu
If your printer is connected to your computer through a network, this menu provides information on network connections and other printer resources.
Making Monitoring Preference Settings
The Monitoring Preferences dialog box allows you to activate and deactivate background monitoring feature and specify the monitoring interval (the length of time between status information updates) for the selected printer. To open the Monitoring Preferences dialog box, see “Turning on background monitoring” on the next page.
When you turn on background monitoring, the Status Monitor updates the status information for the selected printer “in the background” whenever you are using your computer. A Status Alert dialog box is displayed in the lower right corner of your computer screen. It provides printer status short messages and a Details button that allows you to open the Printer Status window.