HP Color LaserJet 4550 printer family - Software Technical Reference

Appendix A: Job Status and Alerts
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Middle 40000 When the refresh rate slider control is set to the
Middle, print jobs will use the value for this key to
check the status of a print job. (Update job state
every 40 seconds.)
MoreOftenLessOne 30000 When the refresh rate slider control is set to the
MoreOftenLessOne, print jobs will use the value
for this key to check the status of a print job.
(Update job state every 30 seconds.)
MoreOften When the refresh rate slider control is set to the
MoreOften, print jobs will use the value for this
key to check the status of a print job. (Update job
state every 10 seconds.)
All values above are default values
[WindowsSpoolerDSRates]
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 the context of the current
computer (spooler queue). 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 computer (spooler queue) is queried for the state of a print job. (See the
LegacyPrinterDSRates section for similar update intervals) Since the spooler queue
resides on the local computer, no networking is performed to get this state, so these
update intervals can be set fairly high (0.2 of second) without affect system performance.
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 copying 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 275 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
275 milliseconds = ~3/10 of second.)
LessOftenPl
usOne
275 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 275 milliseconds = ~3/10 of second.)
Middle 275 When the refresh rate slider control is set to the Middle,
print jobs will use the value for this key to check the
status of a print job. (Update job state every 275
milliseconds = ~3/10 of second.)