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Use Repro Desk to send a print job

Introduction

The Repro Desk suite of applications provides seamless integration of the CAD design desktop and the digital print room, with easy job submission, efficient workflow, and print-ready file management. Repro Desk enables you to manage the whole shop environment. It organizes tasks into work centres and enables complete management of jobs to be printed immediately or to be stored for later printing.

About this task

Repro Desk provides several ways to print a document set.

You can, on the File menu, click Print for a list of printer groups with print options.

You can also drag document sets from Job Center, Document Center, or Scan Center to

  • A printer group

  • A printer

Printer group

When a print request arrives at a printer group, Repro Desk determines which printer or printers to use, based on the following criteria.

  • File formats supported

  • Media supported

  • Folding capabilities

Table 1. How Repro Desk routes print requests to printers within printer groups

When

Then

Exactly one printer has all required capabilities

Repro Desk routes the request to that printer

No printer has all required capabilities

Repro Desk does not allow you to move the request to the printer group

More than one printer has all required capabilities

Repro Desk routes the request based on the Load Balancing property configured for the printer group.

  • Optimize Print Speed – divide the work among printers to complete the task as quickly as possible

  • Optimize Printer Usage – divide the work to make the total number of pages printed by each printer as close to the same as possible

NOTE

For more information about Repro Desk please visit http://downloads.cpp.canon/.