Printers Pane

The Printers pane is a visual representation of all of the printers, local and remote, installed on your network. Using this pane, you can view detailed information about each printer on the network. In addition, this pane provides a convenient way to monitor the status of a printer, and track inventory item usage.

Depending on the security settings of the remote computer, as well as your own, you may have access to a variety of printer management controls. With the proper permissions, Printer Maestro allows you to open the Printer Properties dialog, send test pages to the printer, and pause printing on each of the printers.

Available Fields

When Printer Maestro detects a computer running the Maestro service, it stores information about each printer installed on the computer in its database. This information can be viewed by adding or removing columns in the Printers pane. The following information can be accessed from the database:

Field	Description
Name	Displays the name of the printer. This field is required, and is included in the default view.
Port	Displays the port used to transmit data to the printer.
Status	Displays the current status of the printer.
Jobs	Displays the number of jobs currently in the printer's queue.
Item Usage Meter	Displays the current usage of any inventory items that have been moved to the printer. Moving the cursor over this column will display more detailed information and will display multiple meters if more than one item has been moved to the printer.
Location	Displays the user-defined location of the printer.
Comment	Displays a user-defined comment for the printer.
Computer	Displays the name of the computer where the printer is installed.
Share Name	Displays the share name of the printer if it's shared.
Model	Displays the model name of the printer.
Driver Version	Displays the version number of the installed printer driver.
Color	Displays whether the printer supports color printing.