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Introduction to Job Management
Setting up an operator-controlled environment
This manual assumes you are working in an operator-controlled environment and that
you are the operator responsible for managing job flow. To establish an operator-
controlled environment, you or the administrator must complete the following tasks:
Set up password privileges
—The administrator must set up separate passwords for
operator access and administrator access to the Fiery. For instructions on setting up
passwords, see the
Publish the Hold queue only
—The administrator must enable only the Hold queue,
and not the Direct connection or the Print queue, in Setup. (For more information, see
the
.) This ensures that all jobs sent by remote users are spooled
and held on the server, in preparation for job management by the operator.
Establish communication between users and the operator
—The operator and remote
users must agree upon a method for communicating print needs, such as FreeForm
™
masters. Users can attach instructions to jobs using print option and notes fields (see
Understanding job flow
In an operator-controlled printing environment, remote users send jobs to the Hold
queue of the Fiery. Using a job management utility, such as Command WorkStation,
Fiery WebSpooler, or Fiery Spooler, the operator views the list of held jobs and decides
when to release each job for processing and printing.
The operator may also intervene during the workflow, stopping jobs as they are
processed or printed, placing jobs on hold for future action, or overriding the user-
defined print settings for a job. In some cases, the operator may even modify a job,
duplicating or removing pages, or merging it with pages from another job before
releasing it for printing.
