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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 X3e job management
utilities.
Job environments
The Fiery X3e supports several control levels of printing, job management, and Setup,
and gives you the flexibility to choose a 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 Fiery X3e hard disk drive and stored until the operator decides it is time to print
them. Additional functions (job overrides, prioritizing, and font management) are
reserved for the operator.
• At the other extreme, anyone on the local network can control all printing and Fiery
X3e 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 environment.
Chapter 1:
About Job
Management
