HP Designjet 4500 Printer series - Manual (Page 146)

You can select at what point you want to print a file you have in the queue. From the Web server,
select the Settings tab > Device setup > When to start printing; or, from the front panel, select the
icon and then Job management options > When to start printing.
There are three options you can select:
● When After Processing is selected, the printer waits until the whole page has been processed
and then it starts to print. This is the slowest setting but offers the best print quality.
● When Immediately is selected, the printer prints the page as it is processed. This is the
quickest setting, but the printer may stop halfway through a print to process data. This setting is
not recommended for complex images with dense color.
● When Optimized is selected (this is the default setting), the printer calculates the best time to
begin printing the page. It is usually the best compromise between the After Processing and
Immediately settings.
Identifying a job in the queue
The best way to look at the queue is in the Embedded Web Server (Information > Jobs queue),
where you can manage the queue and get full information on every job (by clicking the name of the
file).
However, you can also manage the queue from the front panel. To do so, select the icon and
then Job queue, where you can see a list of the jobs in the queue.
Each has an identifier, comprising:
<position in queue>: <image name>
The job currently being printed is in position 0. The next job to be printed is in position 1, the previous
job already printed is in position -1.
Prioritizing a job in the queue
To make any job in the queue the next one to be printed, select it and choose Reprint (in the
Embedded Web Server) or Move to front (in the front panel).
If nesting is turned on, the prioritized job may still be nested with others. If you really want this job to
be printed next, and on its own on the roll, first turn nesting off and then move it to the front of the
queue as described above.
Deleting a job from the queue
Under normal circumstances, there is no need to delete a job from the queue after printing it, as it will
just fall off the end of the queue as more files are sent. However, if you have sent a file in error, and
want to avoid any chance of it being reprinted, you can simply delete it, by selecting it and choosing
Delete (in the Embedded Web Server or in the front panel).
In the same way, you can delete a job that has not been printed yet.
If the job is currently being printed (Status = printing in the Web server, or its queue position is 0 in
the front panel), and you want both to cancel the job and to delete it, first click the Cancel icon in the
Web server, or press the Cancel key on the front panel, and then delete it from the queue.
Making copies of a job in the queue
To make extra copies of any job in the queue, select the job in the Embedded Web Server and click
the Reprint icon, then specify the number of copies you want. The job will be moved to the top of the
queue.
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