Print Mode (Handling of Rastered Data)

Print Mode (Handling of Rastered Data)

Controls how the job is to be handled after being sent to the job queue. It consists of a a tag to identify the command, and On or Off attributes to turn the respective printmode on and off. The setting defined in the XML file itself overwrites the setting of the RIP and/or HotFolder. This allows you to e.g. turn on a printmode that is off in the HotFolder on for a specific job or turn a printmode off that is set to On in the HotFolder. You can only use one "On" or "Off" attribute, or as many as you like.

The printmode tag can be used by inserting the tag, and then add On=”” and Off=”” attribues for each print mode you want to change. Only one of each On or Off attribute can be added to the <PrintMode> tag. To change multiple modes, add a second hex value to the attribute separated by a space.

If no printmode tag is defined, the default settings of the HotFolder in HotFolder > Settings > Job are used.

Note that this article concerns Versions 15.6 and 16.3, earlier versions use the syntax <PrintMode></PrintMode>. So e.g. you can use <PrintMode>0x08</PrintMode> to suspend Jobs in those versions.


Possible Printmodes are:

0x40 Activate Preflight: Turns on the Preflight feature for this job. The preflight feature generates a html file with information about the job and contains a rendered job preview to check the output before committing to printing. By default the Preflight is stored in C:\Users\Public\Documents\EsRip\15\Data\Preflight. If configured otherwise in the JobComposer, those settings will be used.

0x02 Keep RIP Data after Printing: When activated, RIP Data for this job is kept in the RIP Data folder and not deleted. This will speed up printing later copies of the same job as the RIP Data is already present, but will take up hard disk space over time.

0x04 Hold printing: When the job enters the PrintClient, it is rastered by the RIP Engine, but is set to suspended and will not be printed until an operator manually changes the suspended status.

0x08 Suspend: When activated, the job is immendiately set to suspended when entering the job queue. It is not rastered or printed until an operator manually changes the suspended status.

0x20 Print without gap: When activated and several copies are specified with the NumCopiesJob attribute for the Job, the copies will be printed one after the other with with no gap inbetween. (Note that this requires NumCopiesJob. It does not work with the NumCopies attribute)

0x80 Repeat without gap – repeat print marks: When activated and several copies are specified with the NumCopiesJob attribute for the Job, the copies will be printed one after the other with with no gap inbetween but adds the print marks active in the JobComposer for each copy. (Note that this requires NumCopiesJob. It does not work with the NumCopies attribute)

0x100 High Priority Job: When this attribute is active, the Job is automatically added to the PrintClient at the top of the queue so it is processed as soon as possible.


Example for a Job using Printmode
Quote
<HotFile>    
   <Job Name="PrintMode">        
      <PrintMode On="0x08" Off="0x02 0x40"/>
         <Image FileName="C:\Users\mep\Pictures\Test Images\lizard.tif">       
         </Image>
   </Job>
</HotFile>

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