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Using the Crown Print Monitor 76
Using the Crown Print Monitor
The Crown Print Monitor (CROWNMON) for Windows is designed specifically for
MINOLTA-QMS printers using TCP/IP protocol to transport print jobs and to access
printer status information.
The Crown Print Monitor’s Print Spooler (both workstation and server versions) controls
the printing environment for both local and remote print jobs submitted through shared
resources via TCP/IP. The Print Spooler “monitors” or “despoolers” are configured to
service print jobs in a particular queue.
Components

Status component
This component obtains information from the printer, such as print job “go/nogo”
and error or warning conditions. Status information displays in Print Manager
through the print queue status dialog box. Status information comes from either the
Windows Print Spooler, the Crown Print Monitor, or the printer, depending on where
the job is in the printing process. See chapter 5,“Troubleshooting,”for more infor-
mation on status messages.

Send component


The Crown Print Monitor uses TCP/IP socket 35 for high-performance data transfer.
This component transports print jobs to a specific MINOLTA-QMS print device.
When a job is sent to a print device by the Crown Print Monitor, it utilizes all allo-
cated Windows operating system resources to transport the job. If a connection is
broken while a job is being transported, the monitor gives control back to the Print
Monitor Print Spooler. Any job sent to the printer while it is recovering from the
break in communication is flushed from the Windows print queue.

Configuration component
This component configures the port name, Internet address, time delays, and prob-
lem sound alert. It consists of the Add MINOLTA-QMS Port and Configure
MINOLTA-QMS Port dialog boxes. All configuration changes made via this compo-
nent are automatically recorded in the Windows system registry.