HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 10 303
Managing Supervisors and Physical Printers
Supporting Special Media
Supporting Special Media
You need to decide which types of media that users in your organization
need and how you plan to support these needs.
The values of the media-ready physical printer attribute specify which
media are currently loaded in the printer device, or the types of media
that are available through an input source such as a manual envelope
feeder. A printer might be able to use other types of media, such as
different sizes of paper, transparencies, or multi-part forms. The
media-supported physical printer attribute specifies all of the types of
media that the physical printer supports.
The media-supported and media-ready attributes may have default
values, depending on the model of printer device. You need to decide
whether to leave the values for these attributes as they are, or whether
to modify them to reflect only the types of media that you actually use
and need to support.
If all users of the physical printer always use either na-letter-white or
na-legal-white media, you could set the media-supported attribute to
only specify those two values.
Although many printer devices can handle many types of media, setting
the media-supported attribute to reflect what you actually support
more clearly defines how you are currently using this physical printer.
This approach also prevents HPDPS from accepting jobs that request a
type of media that you do not use or do not intend to load in the printer
device.
Another consideration is whether there is an operator available to
change the media loaded in the printer device when a user needs a
non-standard medium. That operator must be able to receive messages
from users requesting specific media or must be available to:
• determine if there are held jobs
• determine why the jobs are held
• load the appropriate media in the printer device, for held jobs
requiring resources
• update the corresponding physical printer attributes to reflect the
media currently supported and ready