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Job List window
Your first view of Fiery WebSpooler is the Job List window, which is divided into three areas
by Spool, RIP, and Print status bars. The Job List window is surrounded by a frame that
includes slider buttons and menus. System information indicators at the bottom of the
window show the availability of hard disk space and RAM on the currently selected
RIP Station.
When the RIP Station is receiving and processing print jobs, the Job List window is a
dynamic display, filled with the names of jobs and their characteristics. Status bars animate
in real time as new jobs are processed and printed, and jobs move to different display areas.
The Spool, RIP, and Print areas of the Job List window represent the stages of printing a
job. Jobs come in at the top level (Spool) and drop down to the Print level, unless they are
held along the way.
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Spooled jobs
—Jobs listed in the area below the Spool status bar area are PostScript files
stored on the RIP Station disk. These jobs were sent to the Print queue. These PostScript
files are saved on the server’s hard disk. PostScript files can come in packets from the
network, or from another place on the server hard disk. Jobs are added to a queue in the
order in which they arrive, and they generally move to another queue in the same order
unless someone intervenes to change the order.
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RIPped jobs
—Jobs listed in the area below the RIP status bar are ready to print. They
have already been rasterized (RIPped, or processed for printing) and are waiting, in order,
for access to the printer. During RIPping, PostScript commands are interpreted in the
RIP Station to allow the printer to print the file the way its originator intended. The
result of this interpretation is a raster file associated with the original PostScript file. In
this raster file (raster image), color data is associated with each dot that can be rendered
by the print engine. The color data tells the print engine whether or not to apply cyan,
magenta, yellow, or black ink to each position on the page.
Spool status bar
RIP status bar
Rasterized (RIPped) jobs
Print status bar
Printed jobs
Spooled jobs
Menu bar
System information indicators
