HP Color LaserJet 4550 printer family - Software Technical Reference

Appendix A: Job Status and Alerts
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allprinters 0
Maps to the Refresh Rate setting of Never (Job Status
and Alerts will not track the status of print jobs).
1
Maps to the Refresh Rate setting of LessOften (see
LegacyPrinterDSRates for more information).
2
Maps to the Refresh Rate setting of LessOftenPlusOne
(see LegacyPrinterDSRates for more information). The
refresh rate setting one tick to the right of LessOften.
3*
Maps to the Refresh Rate setting of Middle (see
LegacyPrinterDSRates for more information). The middle
refresh rate setting.
4
Maps to the Refresh Rate setting of MoreOftenLessOne
(see LegacyPrinterDSRates for more information). The
refresh rate setting one tick to the left of MoreOften.
5
Maps to the Refresh Rate setting of MoreOften (see
LegacyPrinterDSRates for more information).
SpecificPrin
terName
0-5 Each printer can have its own independent refresh rate,
just as the allprinters key does above.
* Default values after installation
[LegacyPrinterDSRates]
This section contains key/value pairs that control the update interval Job Status and
Alerts will use while querying for the state of a print job within a printer. The values for
each key are in terms of milliseconds. So a value of 1000 is has the equivalent of 1
second. The lower the refresh rate value, the more often the printer is queried for the
state of a print job. (See the WindowsSpoolerDSRates section for similar update
intervals)
An administrator could speed up (lower the interval) or slow down (increase the interval)
these refresh rates by modifying an HPSTATUS.INI file and then replicate that file on all
of the client systems. This is done by coping the file to each client’s WINDOWS directory,
or if the clients are running a shared version of Windows (win9x), then simply putting the
HPSTATUS.INI in the server’s SYSTEM directory would also suffice.
Key Name
Values Meaning
LessOften 120000 When the refresh rate slider control is set to the
LessOften, print jobs will use the value for this
key to check the status of a print job. (Update job
state every 2 minutes.)
LessOftenPlusOne 90000 When the refresh rate slider control is set to the
LessOftenPlusOne, print jobs will use the value
for this key to check the status of a print job.
(Update job state every 1 minute and 30
seconds.)