Print Job Summary dialog

The Print Job Summary dialog reports statistics of a print job. The entries in this summary are explained below.
If you are looking to improve the performance, please refer to the following topic: Performance considerations.

• Job: The internal name of the template and data file that were used to create this job.

• Statistics: The statistics group shows all information with regards to how long the job took, the speed at which it ran, the job size and what was used to achieve those numbers.

  • Start time: The moment the print command was given. Typically this occurs just before the progress dialog appears.

  • Finish time: The moment all output files had been either written to disk or spooled to the printer. This is not the printer's finishing time.

  • Duration: The total time that it took to finish the job (the difference between Finish and Start time). This should be the sum of the time spent on Content Creation, Job Creation and Output Creation.

  • Content Creation: The time spent on creating content items. This includes the time needed to process the input data and merge them with the given template.

  • Job Creation: The time spent on assembling the job. Job creation settings can be made in the Advanced Printer Wizard, or in a separate Job Preset (see Job Preset).

  • Output Creation: The time spent on creating the actual (spool) file(s). Output creation settings can be made in the Advanced Printer Wizard, or in a separate Output Preset (see Output Presets).

  • Input size: The number of records in the input data.

  • Document count: The number of documents in the job. This may be less than the input size if filtering was used in the job creation settings.

  • Job size: The number of pages created during output creation. This number is also used to calculate the output speed in pages per minute.

  • Merge engines: The number of Merge engines used for content creation. On a multi-core system it is recommended to run several Merge engines in parallel; see Engines preferences.

  • Cores: The number of cores in the CPU(s) of the system.

  • Licensed speed: The maximum speed (in pages per minute) allowed under the applicable license.

  • Speed: The actual speed achieved (in pages per minute) in this print job. The speed is calculated by dividing Job size by Duration.

• Message:

  • When no message is shown, this is because the job was too short to make any sensible statement about it. This happens when the duration is below 30 seconds.

  • "Your job ran at the licensed speed." When this message is shown, the achieved speed for this job is within a 5% margin of the licensed speed. To increase the licensed speed, look into the different upgrading options.

  • "Your job did not run at the licensed speed. Press the help button for tips on improving performance." When this message is shown, it was not possible to achieve the licensed speed. If performance is an issue, please refer to the topic about improving performance: Performance considerations.