You can group printers into printer clusters. You can use the printer cluster for load balancing. Load balancing is based on print speed. The goal is to split the workload in such a way that all printers within the cluster are ready at the same time with their part of the job. For example, the cluster contains two printers. Printer A is twice as fast as printer B. When you send 60 copies of a job to the printer cluster, then printer A prints 40 copies and printer B prints 20 copies.
Load balancing is also applied to variable data documents. Variable data documents are split based on records. One record is equal to one applied row of the data source. When the user provides manual input, the manual input is considered to be one row of a data source.
Click [Printer settings].
Click the plus icon to create a printer cluster. Or select an existing cluster to edit the cluster.
Define a name. The name must be unique.
You can use the characters: 'a - z', 'A - Z', '0 - 9', '_' . Spaces are allowed.
Type a description for the printer cluster.
You can drag and drop available printers to the active printers.
You can define the print speed of each printer that you add to the cluster. The application uses the print speed to calculate the workload per printer when you enable load balancing. The print speed is often based on optimal paper formats and no finishing. When you use non-optimal paper formats and/or finishing, the print speed decreases. You can decrease the print speed to ensure a better calculation of the workload per printer.
Drag and drop active printers to the available printers to remove printers from the cluster.
Click [Save].