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Printer Maestro: Print Jobs

Printer Maestro monitors and records each print job that is sent to your printer. Information about all print jobs, from applications in the BarTender Suite and from non-BarTender applications, is stored in the BarTender System Database, including information about the time and status of the print job, the printer, and the computer.

By using the panes in the Printer Maestro: Print Jobs view, you can filter, sort, and view information about all of the print jobs that Printer Maestro generates; check the status of print jobs; view the print job history; and view events that occur during print jobs.

The view includes the following panes:

To log Printer Maestro print jobs to the BarTender System Database and subsequently display them in History Explorer, you must enable the BarTender System Database event target in Printer Maestro. To do this, click to select the Enable check box on the Events tab of the Events Setup dialog in Printer Maestro. For more information, refer to the Events Tab topic in the Printer Maestro help system.

To display print job information, click one of the filter options under the Print Maestro: Print Jobs header in the View Selector pane. You can use a predefined filter or customize your own.

The following filter options are available:

All Print Jobs: Displays all of the print jobs that are printed from Printer Maestro.

  Jobs with Warnings: Displays the print jobs that contain warnings in their status history.

  Jobs with Errors: Displays the print jobs that contain errors in their status history.

Jobs by Computer: Displays the print jobs as grouped by the computer that processed them.

Jobs by Printer: Displays the print jobs as grouped by the printer that processed them.

  Custom: Displays the custom filter controls at the top of the Printer Maestro: Print Jobs pane. You can use these controls to create custom filters to display only those print jobs that meet specific criteria. For more information, refer to Creating Custom Filters.

After you click a filter, print job information appears in the Printer Maestro: Print Jobs pane and the Selected Print Job Details pane. You can customize the display by sorting, grouping, or filtering the data. You can also reposition the panes to customize the appearance of the History Explorer window.

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