Selected Print Job Details Pane (Printer Maestro Print Jobs)

The selected print job details toolbar, which is located at the top of the pane, includes options that you can use to copy or print the detailed job report and copy event information. The options that are available vary depending on the tab that is selected.

  Copies a row's contents and places it on the Clipboard.

  Copies the detail report (on the Overview tab) or a cell's contents (on the Job Events tab) and places it on the Clipboard.

  Prints the contents of the print job details report.

The Overview tab displays a complete report of the selected print job, including summary information and details about the document that was printed and about the printer. The report contains the following sections.

Print Job Overview

Summary

 

Document Name: Displays the name of the document that was printed.

Printer: Displays the name of the printer that processed the print job.

Created Time: Displays the date and time when the print job was created.

Last Status: Displays the last status that was received from the printer.

Total Printed Items: Displays the total number of items that were printed.

Total Pages: Displays the total number of pages that were printed.

User Name: Displays the user name of the user who ran the print job.

Server Name: Displays the name of the server that sent the print job.

BarTender Version: Displays the version of BarTender software that was used to save the document, including version and build number.

 

BarTender Document Details

 

Document Name: Displays the name of the document that was printed.

Document Path: Displays the complete path of the BarTender document.

Document Modified Date & Time: Displays the date and time when the document was last modified.

 

Printer

 

Name: Displays the name of the printer that processed the print job.

Model: Displays the model of the printer that processed the print job.

Port: Displays the port that connected the printer to the computer.

Comment: Displays the comments that are associated with the printer.

 

Selected Print Job Details

 

Command Line: Displays the command line that initiated the print job.

Identical Copies: Displays the number of identical copies of the label that were printed.

Serialized Copies: Displays the number of serialized copies of the label that were printed.

BarTender Application Settings for Job

Page Setup

 

Printed Item Width: Displays the width of each item that was printed.

Printed Item Height: Displays the height of each item that was printed.

Number of Rows: Displays the number of rows on each page.

Number of Columns: Displays the number of columns on each page.

 

Performance Options

 

Allow Template Caching: Displays whether the print job allowed template caching.

Allow Graphic Caching: Displays whether the print job allowed graphic caching.

Allow Static Graphics: Displays whether the print job allowed static graphics.

Allow Serialization: Displays whether printer serialization was enabled during the print job.

Allow Static Objects: Displays whether the print job allowed static objects.

Allow Variable Optimization: Displays whether variable data optimization was enabled during the print job.

Warn When Using TrueType Fonts: Displays whether the Warn when using TrueType fonts option was enabled during the print job.

 

Object Print Methods

 

TrueType Text: Displays how TrueType fonts were printed.

Unsupported 1D Barcodes: Displays how one-dimensional barcodes that are not supported by the printer were printed.

Unsupported 2D Barcodes: Displays how two-dimensional barcodes that are not supported by the printer were printed.

Lines: Displays how line objects that are not supported by the printer were printed.

Boxes: Displays how box objects that are not supported by the printer were printed.

Ellipses: Displays how ellipse objects that are not supported by the printer were printed.

 

Media Handling Options

 

Action: Displays the media handling action that was taken after the item was printed.

Occurrence: Displays when the media handling action occurred.

Data Item Name: Displays the name that was used to reference the data item that triggered the media handling action.

Item Type: Displays the type of data that was used to trigger the media handling action.

Ignore Case: Displays whether the case of the data in the item type triggered a media handling event.

Number of Labels: Displays the number of labels that were printed before the media handling action occurred.

 

Print Setup Options

 

Log Print Job: Displays whether print job logging was enabled during the print job.

Auto Print Again: Displays whether the print job was automatically printed a second time.

Enable Print Code Modifier: Displays whether the print job allowed script modifications during the print job.

Print To File: Displays whether the print job was printed to file.

Output File Name: If Print To File is "yes," displays the file name of the printer code file.

Show Printer Code: Displays whether the system displayed the printer code after the print job finished.

Enable Data Entry: Displays whether data entry was enabled during the print job.

Refresh Databases: Displays whether the system refreshed the databases before the print job finished.

When you select a Printer Maestro print job in the Job Events tab of the Selected Print Job Details pane, all events that occurred during the course of the BarTender document print job are displayed. The information that is displayed on this tab can be useful when you troubleshoot failed print jobs.

When Printer Maestro detects a print job, it stores information about the events as fields in the database. You can view this information by adding or removing columns in the Job Events tab. The following information is stored about each print job event in the BarTender System Database:

• Category: Displays the category of the event message, such as Job or Printer.

• Severity: Displays the severity level of the event message.

• Text: Displays the contents of the message. Click the arrow to display the entire message.

• Time: Displays the local date and time when the job event occurred.

• Time (UTC): Displays the date and time when the job event occurred in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

• Overview: Displays a complete report of the print job.

• Job Events: Displays the complete event history of a print job.

When you right-click a record, History Explorer displays the following options:

• Copy Row: Copies the data in the selected row to the Clipboard.

• Copy Cell: Copies the data in the selected cell to the Clipboard.

You can configure the properties of the columns on the Job Events tab. To do this, right-click a column header to open the context menu. The options that are displayed vary depending on the properties that are already configured.

The following options are available:

• Clear All Sorting: Clears all custom sorting and displays the contents of the pane in the default order. Available when the selected column is sorted in ascending or descending order.

• Group By This Column: Groups all records by the selected column.

• Hide/Show Group By Box: Hides or shows the Group By box.

• Hide This Column: Hides the selected column.

• Columns: Lists the available columns for the active pane. Use this option to hide a column or to show a previously hidden column.

• Best Fit: Resizes the selected column to a width that displays all of the text in that field.

• Best Fit (All Columns): Resizes all columns to a width that displays all of the text in each field of the column.

• Filter Editor: Opens the Filter Editor dialog, which you can use to create a conditional expression for your filter. Not available for all columns.

• Show/Hide Find Panel: Shows or hides the Find panel, which includes a search box that you can use to search for items in the result set.

• Show Auto Filter Row: Displays the Auto Filter row, which you can use to filter the items in the result set. Not available for all columns.

• Collapse/Expand All: Collapses or expands grouped data rows.

• Fit Columns to Window: Resizes all columns to expand to fill the active pane.

Use the navigation bar to quickly browse through the records in the pane.

  Moves to the previous record.

  Moves to the previous page of data.

  Moves to the first record.

  Moves to the next record.

  Moves to the next page of data.

  Moves to the last record.

You can hide the Selected Print Job Details pane by using one of the following methods:

• On the View menu, click Selected Print Job Details.

• Click the icon to use the Auto Hide feature. For more information, refer to Hiding Panes.

To close the pane, click the icon in the top right corner of the pane.