User guide

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20: Print Cost Estimator
JetCUT includes a tool to help you determine your actual print costs. It calculates
the amount of ink required for a particular job and computes actual ink and
material cost using your costs for ink and media. You will need to calculate your
ink cost per liter and your media cost per square foot.
Once you have calculated that data, determining your actual print cost is easy.
Open the Queue Properties tab for the Queue for which you want to calculate
print cost. The cost data is only displayed for one particular queue at a time, so
choose the one most likely to give you appropriate data. The Print only queue
would be a logical choice.
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Before you begin, it is
important to make sure
your print queue is con-
figured correctly. The
queue must be set to RIP
now, Print later (as op-
posed to RIP and Print
now). Click Queue Prop-
erties. Then click Layout
Manager. In the bottom
section of the Layout
Manager window, make
sure that the option
across from “For Print
Jobs” is “Rip Now, Print
Later. If it is any other
setting, click on the ar-
row at the right side of
the window and select
it from the drop-down
menu.
Now, in the Queue Prop-
erties Window, click on
Other. From the drop-
down menu, select
Costing.