HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Managing Supervisors and Physical Printers
Setting Policy for Job-Size Physical Printer Attributes
Setting Policy for Job-Size Physical Printer
Attributes
You can set a policy on how you plan to use the following physical printer
attributes:
• maximum-copies-supported
• job-size-range-supported
• job-size-range-ready
You can use these attributes to control the number of copies users can
request and the sizes of jobs they can submit. Controlling these
attributes can directly affect printing workload and reduce the usage of
supplies such as paper and toner. Depending on the volume of jobs
generated by your organization, you need to determine whether you
should control jobs based on their size and the number of copies
requested.
The following sections describe how you can modify the values for these
attributes. You must disable the physical printer before you can modify
the attributes.
Using the maximum-copies-supported Attribute
Use -x maximum-copies-supported with thepdset command to control
the numbers of document copies that users can request when submitting
a job. Remember thata job can consist ofone or more documents. HPDPS
calculates the number of document copies based on the values the user
supplies for the following:
1. The value of the copy-count document attribute.
2. The value or values of the job-copies component of the
results-profile job attribute. See “Setting Up the Job
results-profile” in Chapter 11 for further information on the
results-profile attribute.
HPDPS multiplies the two values and compares the calculated value to
the value of the maximum-copies-supported attribute during validation
and scheduling.
For example, if a user submits a job with the command: