HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Managing Jobs and Supporting Users
Determining Job States and Job Status
processing The job has been sent to a physical
printer and is being processed and
printed. Depending on the printer
device, this can indicate that at least
one document in the job has been
sent to the printer device.
retained The job has been retained in the
spooler after it has finished printing
or after it has been cancelled. The
value of the job-retention-period
attribute for the job is greater than
zero.
terminating The job is terminating,either because
it has finished processing or because
it has been aborted. The
job-state-reasons attribute
provides the reason.
timed-out The job was sent to a physical printer,
but the spooler lost communication
with the physical printer and does
not know whether the job is still
processing, has finished printing, or
has terminated because of an error.
This job state occurs after the spooler
has been unable to obtain a response
from the physical printer; the
physical printer has not re-registered
with the spooler in the amount of
time specified by the
printer-register-threshold
spooler attribute.
unknown The spooler does not know the state
of the job because it has lost
communication with the physical
printer to which the job was sent. If
communication is not re-established,
the job state eventually becomes
timed-out.