Toshiba Maintaining optimal GA-1120 performance, Make the best use of your network connections

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Maintaining optimal GA-1120 performance

The GA-1120 does not require maintenance. Beyond the obvious requirements of servicing and maintaining the copier and replenishing consumables, you can improve the overall performance of your system by doing the following:

•Make the best use of your network connections

Publish only connections that will be used; the GA-1120 constantly checks all published connections, even if they are inactive. Match the NetWare polling interval and the number of queues or connections to the demand for printing.

Review the published connections by printing a Configuration page. Eliminate the connections that are not being used. It is easy to re-establish them when needed.

•Leave less urgent jobs to times when there is less network traffic or printing

You can print recurring print jobs or jobs that are not urgent to the Hold queue. At low-traffic times, the administrator or a user of the job management tools with Operator privileges can move (or copy) all the Hold queue jobs to the Print queue for printing.

•Reduce unnecessary two-way communication

Large numbers of users running Fiery utilities, especially with frequent updates, may have a significant effect on GA-1120 performance.

•Make sure you have adequate disk space on the GA-1120

Periodically review the list of jobs in the Hold queue, and the number of jobs being retained in the Printed queue.

An administrator can print or delete jobs that are in the Printed queue and Hold queue. Consider printing or offloading inactive jobs. If disk space on the GA-1120 is frequently low, you can disable the Printed queue (in Server Setup) and choose not to publish the Hold queue (in Printer Setup).

To move or remove queued jobs, use the job management tools. When you free up disk space by removing inactive jobs, new jobs are spooled and printed more quickly.

Shutting down, rebooting, and restarting the GA-1120

Generally, you can leave the GA-1120 and the copier running all the time. This section describes how to reboot, shut down, and restart the GA-1120 when necessary.