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Introduction to Job Management
This section explains the basic principles of job management in an operator-controlled print
environment, and provides an overview of the AR-P15 job management utilities.
Job Environments
The AR-P15 supports several control levels of printing, job management, Setup, and gives you the
flexibility to choose the configuration that corresponds to the requirements of your site.
Levels of Job Control
The following descriptions outline the range of levels of job control that may exist in your environment:
• At one extreme, an operator in a high-volume printing environment controls the entire job flow and all
printing. Print jobs arriving from remote users are spooled to the server hard disk and stored until the
operator decides it is time to print them. Additional functions (job overrides, prioritizing, font
management) are reserved for the operator.
• At the other extreme, anyone on the local network can control all printing and server functions;
operator intervention is not required. Users can print from their workstations to any of the published
print connections. Anyone can use the job management utilities to control any print job.
You can implement intermediate levels of job control in your environment. However, the job
management utilities are best suited for an operator-controlled environments.
Setting up an Operator-Controlled Evironment
This manual assumes you are working in an operator-controlled environment and that you are the
operator responsible for managing job flow. To establish an operator-controlled environment, you or the
administrator must complete the following tasks:
Set up password privileges—The administrator must set up separate passwords for operator access
and administrator access to the AR-P15. For instructions on setting up passwords, see the
Admnistrator’s Guide.
Establish communication between users and the operator—The operator and remote users must
agree upon a method for communicating print needs, such as FreeForm
TM
masters. Users can attach
instructions to jobs using print option and notes fields (see “Communicating with Users”
P15).
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