Status Bars - Canon IR C2100 Job Management Manual

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2-15 Queues window
—a PostScript file is saved on the iR C2100/2100S's hard disk. The
Spooling
file can come in packets from the network, or from another place on the
iR C2100/2100S hard disk. Jobs are added to a queue in the order in which
they arrive, and they generally move to another queue in the same order
unless an operator has intervened to change the order.
—PostScript commands are interpreted in the
Rasterizing (RIPping)
iR C2100/2100S to allow the copier/printer to print the file the way its
originator intended. The result of this interpretation is a raster file associated
with the original PostScript file. In this raster file (raster image), color data is
associated with each dot that can be rendered by the print engine. The color
data tells the print engine whether or not to apply cyan, magenta, yellow, or
black toner to each position on the page.
—The raster image is transferred from the iR C2100/2100S to the
Printing
print the print engine at high speed, freeing up RAM for the next job. While
the PostScript file is usually saved to disk, raster images are held in RAM
during and after each print job. However, both users and operators can
request that the iR C2100/2100S save the raster image to disk along with the
PostScript file.
Saving the raster image to disk offers some advantages—raster files are already
processed so they print quickly, and each part of the raster file is still
identified with a page in the original document, which means that individual
pages of a saved raster file can be accessed.

Status bars

Jobs actively involved in the three processes (spooling, rasterizing, and
printing) are listed in the status bars that span the Queues window.
Status bars show the filename and user name for the active process, and an
indication of its progress. Each status bar heads the list of jobs that have
completed the process. Thus, beneath the Spool status bar, you see a list of
spooled files; beneath the RIP status bar, you see a list of rasterized (RIPped)
files; beneath the Print status bar, you see a list of jobs that have already been
printed.