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Information Pane

By default, the Information pane appears on the right side of the Printer Maestro window. It displays detailed information about the most recently selected item in the active pane, such a selected printer, computer, print job, or event message. For example, information about a print job event includes the job itself, the job's status, the name of the user who ran the print job, and the printer that the job was sent to.

You can change the information that is displayed in the Information pane by clicking an icon at the top edge of the pane. The following options are available:

  Displays detailed information about the selected computer and the network that it is connected to.

  Displays detailed information about the selected printer, such as the printer port that is in use, the driver that is installed, and the model specifications.

  Displays detailed information about the selected print job and the printer that it was sent to.

  Displays detailed information about the event message, such as the computer and print job that generated the message.

  Displays detailed information about the selected inventory item.

ClosedUsing the Printer Inventory Item Actions

In most cases, the Information pane is for information display only. However, when inventory items are loaded into a printer, each inventory item in the printer is displayed as grouped by its inventory type.

If you expand an individual inventory item in the Information pane, the current usage statistics are displayed together with an Actions row that includes the following options:

To load inventory items into a printer, drag the item from the Inventory pane to the printer that you want in the Printers pane.

ClosedHiding the Pane

You can hide the pane by using one of the following methods:

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