Digital Printing Terminal
The Digital Printing Terminal lets you monitor and control printing to a digital press. You can use it to submit print jobs manually to the press, influencing the order of output by doing so. In addition, you can view information about the jobs and the press (toner level, etc.).
Prerequisite: A suitable digital press must have been set up (see also Connecting Digital Presses) in the Central Device Manager (CDM) in "Administration > System" (see "Central Device Manager" section). "Data Terminal with direct connection of the machine" must be set as the connection type in the device settings.
If "Direct connection of the press" is enabled, all the jobs sent to the press will be output at once and manual control of printing is not possible on the Digital Printing Terminal.
Points to Note when Submitting Print Jobs
If the Digital Printing Terminal is part of the system configuration, print jobs that are submitted to a suitably configured PagePrint or ImposedPrint sequence in the "Digital Printing" step automatically go to the Digital Printing Terminal (see Submit print job to the printing press).
In the "Submit Elements" dialog , the "Priority" and "Delivery quantity" settings have a direct effect on further processing in the Digital Printing Terminal.
Priority determines the order of printing in the Digital Printing Terminal. The higher the priority, the sooner the job is processed in the automatic output mode or the higher it is placed in the "Waiting Print Jobs" list.
If several print jobs have the same priority, the time a job was submitted determines the output order.
Note: Print jobs for test chart output for spot color settings or calibrations are printed immediately and have a higher priority than any of the other print jobs.
Delivery quantity
The delivery quantity, in other words the number of copies to be printed, is sent directly to the press as an instruction.