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l Add job information to the document: Select to prompt your PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools to add the avail-
able job information elements in the header of the file that will be sent to the selected printer queues.
Metadata
If no metadata file is found, the from/to page settings from the job and the printer's properties from the task configuration are
used, with the job's settings overriding those of the printer where applicable.If a metadata file is found, it is used to indicate
which pages are printed and in which order. Any other metadata is ignored.
Known issue: If a data file with metadata is resubmitted to such a process, the from/to page values set by the user in the
Resubmit interface are ignored.
On Error Tab
The On Error Tab is common to all tasks. Details can be found on "Task Properties Dialog" (page 54).
Printer Queue Output
Printer Queue output tasks dispatch jobs to selected printer queues. Note that you must have created at least one printer
queue before you can add your first Printer Queue output task. Furthermore, to print the data file with a PlanetPress Design
document, you must have associated at least one document with a printer queue.
You can select multiple queues in a Printer Queue output tasks and choose exactly how your jobs will be dispatched to the
selected printers.
Printer Queue output task properties are as follows:
General tab
l Queues: Select the queues to which you want to send the output.
l Documents: Select None if you want the data to print as is. Select a specific PlanetPress Design document if you
want all the jobs to be printed with that document. To use a document chosen at runtime for each job, enter a dynamic
document name using a combination of text, variables and data selections. To enable the dynamic document name
box, click inside it. To disable it, press Enter. Note that in the later case, you must be certain that the documents that
will be chosen at runtime will in fact be available locally or at all the selected printer. Note that PlanetPressSuite Work-
flow Tools will not specify a given document version number, so the latest version will be used by default. To specify a
given document version number, you can use an Add Document action task instead of a Printer Queue output, and then
use an Add/Remove Text action task to add a version number in the document trigger (for more information, refer to
the Control Versions of a Document section of the PlanetPress Design User Guide).
Advanced tab
l Copies: Enter the number of copies to be printed outputs. Since this is a variable property box, you may enter a fixed
value or use a data selection. Note that load balancing options have an impact on how copies are printed as well as on
the total number of printed copies.
l Load balancing group (Options from this group are only valid if multiple printer queues were selected.)
l No balancing: No load balancing means that all the selected printer queues get everything.
l Split job: Split job means that jobs will be split according to the criteria set in the Page delimiter group (see
below) and that an equal share of the job file will be sent to each one of the selected printer queues. For a hun-
dred page job, for example, if two queues were selected, each one will get 50 pages.
l Queue balancing: Queue balancing means that jobs will be split according to the criteria set in the Page
delimiter group (see below) and that a share of the job file corresponding to each printer’s capacity (as set in
the PlanetPressSuite Workflow Tools Printer Queue Options dialog box—see "Print Using a Windows Driver"
(page 204)) will be sent to each one of the selected printer queues. If two queues were selected, the first one
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