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Job environments
This chapter explains the basic principles of job management in an operator-controlled
print environment, and provides an overview of the Fiery job management utilities.
Job environments
The Fiery supports several control levels of printing, job management, Setup, and gives
you the flexibility to choose the configuration that corresponds to the requirements of
your site.
Levels of job control
The following descriptions outline the range of levels of job control that may exist in
your environment:
• At one extreme, an operator in a high-volume printing environment controls the
entire job flow and all printing. Print jobs arriving from remote users are spooled to
the server hard disk and stored until the operator decides it is time to print them.
Additional functions (job overrides, prioritizing, font management) are reserved for
the operator.
• At the other extreme, anyone on the local network can control all printing and server
functions; operator intervention is not required. Users can print from their
workstations to any of the published print connections. Anyone can use the job
management utilities to control any print job.
You can implement intermediate levels of job control in your environment. However,
the job management utilities are best suited for an operator-controlled environments.
Chapter 1:
Introduction
to Job
Management
