Using The Crown Print Monitor; Components - MINOLTA-QMS 2200 User Manual

Using the Crown Print Monitor

The Crown Print Monitor (CROWNMON) for Windows is designed specifically for
MINOLTA-QMS printers using TCP/IP protocol to transport print jobs and to access
printer status information.
The Crown Print Monitor's Print Spooler (both workstation and server versions) controls
the printing environment for both local and remote print jobs submitted through shared
resources via TCP/IP. The Print Spooler "monitors" or "despoolers" are configured to
service print jobs in a particular queue.

Components

Status component
This component obtains information from the printer, such as print job "go/nogo" and
error or warning conditions. Status information displays in Print Manager through
the print queue status dialog box. Status information comes from either the Windows
Print Spooler, the Crown Print Monitor, or the printer, depending on where the job is
in the printing process. See chapter 5,"Troubleshooting,"for more information on sta-
tus messages.
Send component
The Crown Print Monitor uses TCP/IP socket 35 for high-performance data transfer.
This component transports print jobs to a specific MINOLTA-QMS print device. When
a job is sent to a print device by the Crown Print Monitor, it utilizes all allocated Win-
dows operating system resources to transport the job. If a connection is broken while a
job is being transported, the monitor gives control back to the Print Monitor Print
Spooler. Any job sent to the printer while it is recovering from the break in communi-
cation is flushed from the Windows print queue.
Configuration component
This component configures the port name, Internet address, time delays, and problem
sound alert. It consists of the Add MINOLTA-QMS Port and Configure
MINOLTA-QMS Port dialog boxes. All configuration changes made via this compo-
nent are automatically recorded in the Windows system registry.
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