Starting and Pausing Jobs

Starting and Pausing Jobs

About pausing and starting

You can pause and start (resume) jobs but also printers. You can do so in either in one of the following processing stages:
 Pause/start Interpret Render Print
 Job Yes Yes Yes
 Printer No Yes Yes

You can use the dedicated buttons to pause and resume jobs or printers.

To pause a job

Proceed as follows:
  1. In the Job queue list, click the status indicator of the job which you want to pause.
  2. Click the Pause job button in the upper-right corner of the main printer window.
The status indicator of the job changes to Hold.

To start (resume) a job on hold

Proceed as follows:
  1. In the Job queue list, click the Hold status indicator of the job which you want to pause.
  2. Click the Start job button in the upper-right corner of the main printer window.
The status indicator of the job changes to Standby and the job will be processed.

To pause a printer

Click the printer status icon in the Render or Print column heading.
The status icon changes to Paused and all jobs which you add to the queues for this printer from now on will be put on standby.

To start (resume) a printer

Click the printer status icon in the Render or Print column heading.
The status icon changes to Running and all jobs on standby will be processed.

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