Using Queue Manager  B1i

NOTE: Information pertaining to the Xerox Nuvera® Digital Copier/Printer is identified as the DC, ST or Office Systems. Information pertaining to the Xerox Nuvera® Digital Production System and Xerox Nuvera® 288 Digital Perfecting System are identified as NP/NP+ or Production System.

For the Production (NP/NP+) system, Queue Manager is used to create numerous internal printer queues that can used to control the flow or handling of documents in different ways.

As described in Configuring Queue Server in Production Mode, under the NetWare (NDS & Bindery) heading, these internal queues can be user selected to receive jobs from specific NetWare Server queues.

For complete information on the use of Queue Manager consult the on-line help for Queue Manager.

To add a new queue

1. Open the Queue Manager by selecting Queue from the displayed list of Managers.
2. Select the Queue drop-down arrow at the top of the Queue Manager window.
3. Select New... from the displayed menu.
4. When the New Queue dialog displays, in the Queue Name field enter a name of up to 25 characters. The name can consist of letters, numbers, and underscores.
5. Select a number between 1 and 65,500 to indicate the Quantity of job sets to be printed for all jobs sent to this queue, unless otherwise specified in the job itself.
6. Set a priority between 1 (highest priority) and 100 (lowest priority) for the queue.
7. Select the job input mode and format to indicate the manner in which jobs will be submitted to the queue.
8. Select a destination of either Print or Save. Print prints the document. Save saves the document to the location designated in Save Location.
9. Make other, desired, setting selections from the Stock, Output, Image Quality, Image Edit, and PDL Settings tabs.
10. Select Add Queue to complete the addition of the new queue.
11. Select Close to exit the New Queue dialog.
12. In the Queue list, right click the new queue and choose Accept Jobs to enable the queue.

To view or modify queue properties

1. Open the Queue Manager.
2. Select a queue and double click the system mouse to open Queue Properties.
3. Modify queue settings as desired, then click OK to have your changes enabled by the system.

Note regarding the Override setting

Many options in the Queue Manager dialogs contain an override setting. Select Override only if you want the queue settings to take precedence over any attributes programmed with individual jobs.

Lock/Unlock Folders

The System Administrator can lock or unlock a queue. The properties can not be changed in a locked queue.

1. Open Queue Manager.
2. Right click on a queue.
3. Select Lock or Unlock.

Hot Folders

Hot Folders provides a quick easy was to submit jobs to a Nuvera system. Users are able to drag and drop multiple files from the desktop into a Hot Folders for printing.

To enable a Hot Folder:

1. Open Queue Manager.
2. Right-click on a queue.
3. Select Hot Folder: Enable Hot Folder.

DocuSP transparently performs all the needed networking configuration, utilizing SAMBA (SMB), then exports the Hot Folder onto the network so it is publicly visible to all users.

To disable a Hot Folder:

1. Open Queue Manager.
2. Right-click on a queue.
3. Select Hot Folder: Disable Hot Folder

The Hot Folder Observer monitors the Hot Folders for new jobs: PDL files or XPIF tickets. Supported PDL files Include: PDF, PS, PCL, TIFF, VIPP, and VIPP Projects.

• If there is a PDL job, Hot Folder Observer submits the job to the queue.
• IF the job is a XPIF ticket, Hot Folder Observer processes the XPIF ticket to obtain the PDL files specified in the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) attribute in the XPIF ticket and submit the job to the queue. Note: URI's can not contain Hot Folder locations.
• Jobs submitted without XPIF tickets print with default queue settings.

After a successful job submission to the queue, the Hot Folder Observer deletes the job in the Hot Folder. If the Hot Folder Observer fails to submit a job to the queue, it copies the offending job to folder title ERROR, a sub folder of the Hot Folder.

Hot Folder Observer polling time can be set for 1 to 10000 seconds.

1. Select [System: System Preferences: Job Processing tab: Hot Folder]. DocuSP must be restarted to recognize the polling time changes.

Hot Folders are stored in the directory: /var/spool/XRXnps/hotfolders.

Hot Folders is backed by the Backup/Restore function.

Mounting Hot Folders on a PC:

There are two procedures for mounting Hot Folders on a PC.

Procedure #1

1. Launch the Run command from the Start window.
2. Type in two backslashes and the hostname. (Example: \\chevelle)
3. From the list of visible Hot Folders, double-click on a Hot Folder to mount it.

Procedure #2

1. Open an Explorer window.
2. Select View: Toolbars: Address Bar
3. Type two backslashes, the hostname, a backslash and the Queue/Hot Folder name.
   (Example: \\chevelle\HotFolderq)
4. Press Enter.