HP Color LaserJet 4550 printer family - Software Technical Reference

Appendix A: Job Status and Alerts
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Appendix A: Job status and alerts in Windows operating
systems
Operating systems supported
This component can be installed on:
• Windows 2000
• Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Millennium
• Windows NT 4.0
Overview
The Job Status and Alerts feature is an extension to the printing system to help users stay informed about
the status of jobs they have submitted. Job Status and Alerts installs as part of the default driver
installation. If the user wants to install the driver without Job Status and Alerts for some reason, it is
necessary to use the custom install option and uncheck the status component before proceeding.
There is no help file or help button associated with the Job Status and Alerts window. The window is a
system-global printing status monitor. That is, there is only one Job Status and Alerts window, regardless
of how many printers or print jobs are being processed on the system.
Job Status and Alerts functionality is a background process launched at system startup. Normally, it runs
until the system shuts down. This Status process installs and maintains an icon in the system tray. The
behavior and appearance of this icon is described in depth in System tray icon.
The Options panel allows the user to specify what types of events (if any) should cause the Job Status
and Alerts window to display automatically.
The following definitions are used in the Job Status and Alerts feature:
• Active job: a job that has been submitted, is represented by an icon in the Job Status and Alerts icon
list, and is not yet completed.
• Active panel: the panel that is currently being displayed if the Job Status and Alerts window is open,
or that would be displayed if the window were opened; the panel associated with the currently
selected icon
• Alert condition: a job status condition that would trigger a document alert, whether or not that type of
alert were enabled in the Document Alerts options panel.
• Completed job: a job that cannot proceed because it has either finished successfully, failed with
some sort of error, was canceled, or Job Status and Alerts is unable to locate the job or communicate
with the printer (bidi communication failure).
• Current job: see Active panel.
• Current panel: see Active panel.
• Inactive job: see Completed job.
• Panel: the collection of display elements (similar to a dialog) associated with a particular icon, and
displayed in the right side of the Job Status and Alerts window when that icon is selected.
• Selected panel: see Active panel
• Top job: the job that was submitted most recently, earning it the top position in the icon list.
• Triggering job: the job with the most recent alert condition.