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4.1 Preference --> Printers
Default Base Cost / Page
The Cost / Page includes the base
cost, discount for duplex printing (printing on both
sides of the paper) and an extra costs
for color printing.
Example:
Base cost: $0.10 Duplex Discount / page: 20%
Color cost / page: 50%
The total cost for 10 pages with duplex and color
printing: 10 * (0.10 - 0.10 * 20% + 0.10 * 50%) = $1.30
The total cost for 10 pages with color printing: 10 * (0.10 +
0.10 * 50%) = $1.50
Paper Size Charging
Example:
Base cost: $0.10 Duplex Discount / page: 20%
Color cost / page: 50%
The total cost for 10 pages with duplex and color
printing on A3 297 x 420 mm:
10 * (0.10 - 0.10 * 20% + 0.10 * 50% + 0.10
* 20%) = $1.50
The total cost for 10 pages with color printing on C
size sheets:
10 * (0.10 + 0.10 * 50% + 0.10 * 30%) =
$1.80
Undefined Paper
Sizes
If "Undefined #" is shown
on the Printer Admin - Print Release Station monitor screen --> Waiting Jobs, then you can click the
menu item "print jobs --> preference-->paper size charging-->undefined paper
sizes" to defined the "undefined #"
Available Printer List
The Available Printer List includes all the printers
that are configured by using the local ports such as LPT port, Standard TCP/IP
port or LPR port on the Printer Admin - Print Release Station. These printers must be shared. You can select
multiple printers by holding down the "Ctrl" key on the keyboard.
Refresh Printer List
Refresh the list of available printers. After you add a printer to your
computer or remove a printer from your computer, you can click this button to refresh the list.
Monitored Printer List
The Monitor Printer List includes the printers
to which you want to release the print jobs. You can select multiple printers by holding down
the "Ctrl"
key on the keyboard to remove those printers from the list of Monitored Printer.
Update Base Cost / Page, Duplex, and Color Charging
One or multiple printers in the
list of monitored printers can be updated at one time.
4.2 Preference --> Print Jobs
Show Waiting Jobs
If the option "Require users to
enter Login ID or Computer Name" is checked in the menu item "Preference ->
Preference -> User Mode and if "Show waiting jobs by User Name" is
selected, then the User Name is required in the Login window. If "Show waiting jobs by Computer Name"
is selected, then the Computer Name is required in the Login window.
Enable Slave Print Release Station
If you want to add Slave Print
Release Station, this option must be checked.
The Master Print Release Station holds all
print jobs. The Slave Print Release Station can hold all print jobs or parts
of print jobs depending on the printer settings. One Master Print Release
Station can have multiple Slave Print Release Stations. The users can use
either the Master Print Release Station or the Slave Print Release Station
to release their print jobs. When a print job is released, it is removed
from the Master Print Release Station and the Slave Print Release Station.
4.3 Preference --> Prepaid
Accounts
The print jobs can be released by
prepaid account. You can create a few prepaid
accounts, export them to a CSV file, update CSV file using
MS Excel, Save it as CSV file, then import it to Preferences
-> Prepaid Accounts.
4.4 Preference --> User Mode
Staff
Mode Password
The password is needed to switch Printer Admin - Print
Release Station from User Mode to Staff Mode.
Lock Desktop
The keyboard is locked out except
the alt-a key. You
can only use the mouse to delete or release the print jobs.
Auto Run User Mode
Start user mode automatically when you run Printer Admin - Print
Release Station or when you start the computer.
Require Users to
Login
Require users to login to show only their jobs. If the option "Show waiting
jobs by User ID" is selected in the menu item "Preference -> Preference -> Print
Jobs" then the User ID is required in the Login window. If "Show waiting jobs by
Computer Name" is selected, then the Computer Name is required in the Login window.
Idle Timeout
Logout automatically in the user mode
after some specified idle time if it is in login status.
Require
Users to Enter Unique Codes
This feature is only applied to
the network environment in which all users use the same login id on all workstations.
The unique code is used to
determine the owner of the print
jobs.
Show Popup Notification
If it is enabled, then the
printer name and printer share name must be the same for all the Monitored
Printers. Printer Admin - Popup client software also needs to be installed on the workstations.
Require to change the print job name
The users must change their print job names that will be shown on the print
release station.
Require to set the password
The users must set the password for their print jobs. When they go to the
release station to either release or cancel the print job, a popup window
appears for the required password.
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