Reference Guide

Printing with Macintosh / Checking Printer Status and Managing Print Jobs

Making Configuration Settings

If you want to change the way the StatusMonitor utility monitors your printer, follow the steps below.

Click Print or Page Setup on the File menu of your application.

Click the Utility icon button in the dialog box.

Click the Configuration button. The Configuration Settings dialog box appears.

The options in this dialog box allow you to make the following settings.

Error notification	Choose how the StatusMonitor notifies you in case of an error.
Warning	Choose how the StatusMonitor notifies you if a warning message becomes necessary.
Temporary Spool folder	Choose the folder for temporary spooling of print data.
Temporary High Speed Copies folder	Choose the folders for multiple-copy print data storage.
Data will be sent to the printer after being stored on your disk	Select this check box to prevent horizontal banding in your printout. By default, graphics data is sent by the computer to the printer in rectangular bands, which prevents the printer from having to reconstruct an entire image in memory before printing it. Selecting this check box will make the computer temporarily store the image data on its hard drive and then send it to the printer as a whole to prevent banding in the printed image.
Check for errors before starting to print.	Select this check box if you want to check for errors before starting to print.
Check the ink level before starting to print.	Select this check box if you want to check the ink level before starting to print.