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.
Select a printer cluster.
Enable option [Automatic balancing].
The application calculates the workload per printer.
When you do not enable option [Automatic balancing], you have to set the number of copies per printer yourself.