HP Color LaserJet 4550 printer family - Software Technical Reference

Appendix A: Job Status and Alerts
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The Warning icon is used in conjunction with one of the other job status icons, and does not
represent a job state by itself. The Receiving icon will be rarely seen, because a typical print job
takes very little time to write to the spooler, especially if the spooler is on the local host. After
Receiving, the job enters the Waiting state or the Printing state.
Since the largest portion of time before a job completes will be spent in either the Waiting or the
Printing states, both of these employ an animated icon.
NOTE: The animated icons will appear in the job status panel only--the
icon list will use only the static icons.
It is possible that when the Job Status window is displayed, more than one job is being
processed. In that event, there is a separate job status icon for each job being processed. Each
has the appropriate icon indicating the current status of that job, but the job (document) name will
be used to distinguish them. In the event that more than one job has been submitted with the
same name, some identifier is appended to the second and subsequent icon titles (engineering
resources permitting) to keep them unique (e.g., two documents named "untitled" might appear
as "untitled" and "untitled2").
When the job status icon is selected, the right side of the window displays the status panel
containing information about the status of the current job. The general layout of the status panel
is:
• a status icon followed by a single-word title, followed by the name of the target printer in
parentheses
• a one-line sentence describing the details of the current status
• additional information (not always present) that pertains to the current status.
In case of a printer warning condition, the current status of the job does not change--the job
progresses as usual, until either the user cancels the job or the printer develops a more serious
(error) condition. To notify the user of warning conditions that do not (immediately) impact the
current job, a warning icon is displayed along with a brief description of the condition.
NOTE: The job icon (in the list of the left side) will never change to the
warning icon because, as stated above, the caution icon does
not represent a state by itself--it only supplements one of the
other states.
Warning conditions will not be reported for jobs that are completed, but they can be combined
with any other state, including error (stopped) states.
With the job completed, it is no longer possible to cancel the job, so the Cancel Job button
becomes disabled.
If the destination printer is an unknown type, it will be impossible to gather status information
about the job. In this case, Job Status and Alerts displays the "Unknown" state. This also displays
when the printer is a known type, but for whatever reason, Job Status and Alerts could not get
status information.
Dynamic Behavior of Job Status
When the Job Status window is opened, it contains at least one icon in the list, and
exactly one icon is selected, with its panel displayed in the right side of the window.
When the Job Status window is opened, it will select either the most recent triggering job
(if an alert condition has occurred since the window was last closed), or the same panel