FARGO electronic Card Printer User Manual

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B. PRINTING WITH THE BACKGROUNDER

With the Backgrounder turned on in the Chooser, select Print from the File menu to
print your image. A message appears telling you the image is being spooled to disk
for Background/Later processing. Once the message disappears, background
processing has begun so your application is free to be used for other work.

The print job is processed automatically by the Backgrounder. Other images can be
printed and, in turn, will be processed by Backgrounder. While Backgrounder is
running, you can quit the current application and start another without disturbing
your print jobs. Backgrounder processes all print jobs in the order in which they
were sent to the printer.

C. THE BACKGROUNDER STATUS WINDOW

The Backgrounder status window gives you detailed information about the status
of the print job currently processing and about each print job waiting in the queue.
The status of the job currently processing displays at the top of the status window.
The message indicates how much of the job has been processed and displays any
other relevant information. This line is blank if, for example, you manually start
Backgrounder and no job is currently being processed.

The list of queued jobs displays below the current job in the order in which they
were sent to the printer. Some applications, however, may put each page of the
document into a separate spool file, creating a different job in the queue for each
page. Print jobs are always added to the bottom of the queue. When the job
currently processing is complete, the spool file for that job is deleted from the hard
disk, and the top-most job in the queue is then processed.

Jobs that are Òon holdÓ are displayed at the bottom of the job list in italic font. A job
goes on hold when it has been canceled or when an error is detected during
processing. An overall status message about the Backgrounder displays in the
lower left corner of the window. The normal message is ÒAvailable,Ó indicating that
the Backgrounder can process jobs immediately or add them to the queue.