Print Control Software

1. Printer Admin - Print Release Station can hold all print jobs until they are released or cancelled (manually or automatically).

2. Printer Admin - Print Release Station allows the user to preview the print job before it is printed.

3. Printer Admin - Print Release Station can send notification to the users for them to either confirm or cancel the print jobs from their workstations.

4. Printer Admin - Print Release Station supports the pay-for-print system.

5. Printer Admin - Print Release Station can cancel the print jobs automatically based on the policies.

6. Printer Admin - Print Release Station can cancel all unclaimed print jobs automatically based on the timeout settings.

For details, please check User Guide.

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Solution (Right click the folder -> Properties -> Security). The user account must also have “full control”

permission on the printers (Right click the printer -> Properties -> Security). If you allow the user account

registry HEKY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CZ Print Release Station (Start -> Run -> regedt32 ->

Select HEKY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CZ Print Release Station -> Click Security)

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Yes. You must use Master - Slave infrastructure to implement Printer Admin - Print Release Station. Please check the Knowledge Base for more information.

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Please run “Daily backup and optimize the database” at the time you defined in Preferences --> Print Jobs. If the computer is shut down at that time you defined, this operation will not run.

If you install Printer Admin - Print Release Station 4.0 on Windows 2000, you don't need to do anything for this.

If you install Printer Admin - Print Release Station 4.0 on Windows XP, 

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit in the Open box, and then click OK.
2. Locate the following registry subkey, where <printername> is the name of your printer:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Printers\<printername>
3. In the right pane, right-click SpoolDirectory, and then click Modify.

4. In the Value data box, copy the value from DefaultSpoolDirectory located in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Printers)

5. Repeat step2 to step 4 for the other printers.
6. Quit Registry Editor.
7. Restart the Print Spooler service. (Control Panel --> Administrative Tools --> Service)
8. Restart Printer Admin - Print Release Station 4.0.

If you install Printer Admin - Print Release Station 4.0 on Windows 2003 / Windows Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 2008,    

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit in the Open box, and then click OK.
2. Locate the following registry subkey:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print
3. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
4. In the New Value #1 box, type DisableServerFilePooling, and then press ENTER.
5. Right-click DisableServerFilePooling, and then click Modify.
6. In the Value data box, type 1 to turn off spool file pooling, and then click OK.
7. Quit Registry Editor.
8. Restart the Print Spooler service. (Control Panel --> Administrative Tools --> Service)
9. Restart Printer Admin - Print Release Station 4.0.

Yes. If your printer spooling format supports EMF, then you are able to preview the print job on the Master Print Release Station (Hold down the left key of the mouse and drag the right side of the column of Paper Size and you will see the column of Datatype).

1. Exit Printer Admin - Print Release Station if it is running.

2. Rename file C:\ Program Files \ CZ Solution \ CZ Print Release Station \ config \ nopreview (or  C:\Users\ <your_account> \ AppData \ Local \ VirtualStore \ Program Files \ CZ Solution \ CZ Print Release Station \ config \ nopreview)  to a different name.

3. Start Printer Admin - Print Release Station and select the menu item "Document-->Preview".

If you can’t preview the print job, please follow the steps below:

Step 1: Pause the printer, send a print job, check if the spool file format is #####.spl where ##### is the number (for example 00002.spl) in the spool directory e.g. C:\Windows\System32\Spool\PRINTERS. If yes, unpause the printer and go to step 2.  If no,  please follow the instructions in Question 6 to turn off Spool File Pooling.

Step 2: Select the option "Enable advanced printing features" in the printer properties and click OK button, then send a print job and check if the above datatype is EMF. If yes, you should be able to preview the print job and you can ignore the Step 2.

Step 3: If the data type is not EMF, please select an EMF datatype in Print Processor, and click OK button to save. Then send a print job and check if the above datatype is EMF. If yes, you should be able to preview the print job and you can ignore the Step 3.

Step 4: Please check if your printer supports EMF datatype or your current printer driver support EMF datatype. You can also try a different printer driver such as Postscript driver.

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1. Exit Printer Admin - Print Release Station if it is running.

2. Rename file C:\Program Files\CZ Solution\CZ Print Release Station\config\noservice to a different name.

3. Start Printer Admin - Print Release Station and select the menu item "Tools-->Install Printer Admin - Print Release Station (Master) Service".

4. Restart the computer

Tip: Printer Admin - Print Release Station - Master can be run in either interactive mode or windows service. If you run Printer Admin - Print Release Station - Master in interactive mode with the monitor screen open, Printer Admin - Print Release Station - Master service is stopped automatically. When you exit Printer Admin - Print Release Station - Master interactive mode (The monitor screen is closed), Printer Admin - Print Release Station - Master service is started automatically. This is done by design to allow only one thread to be running at one time.

Tip: The default account to run Printer Admin - Print Release Station (Master) service is the Local System Account. If the CPU usage for "PrintSaver.exe" in the task manager is high, you will need to unregister msstdfmt.dll (Start-->Run-->regsvr32 /u msstdfmt.dll) and then register it again (Start-->Run-->regsvr32 msstdfmt.dll). If necessary, you can also change the Local System Account to a windows user account that has admin permission on all monitored printers (Control Panel-->Administrative Tools-->Services-->Printer Admin - Print Release Station - Master).  The best account on which to run Printer Admin - Print Release Station (Master) service is the admin account that you used to log onto this computer and with which you installed the Printer Admin - Print Release Station (Master) software.

You can easily translate reports into your language by translating some strings in the menu item "Preferences --> Print Jobs --> Translate". This translation process takes just a few minutes.

Option 1: Assign “CREATOR OWNER” only “Print” permission in the “Security” of the properties of the printers (Right click the printer -> Properties -> Security) on the Master Print Release Station.