How do you send badge print jobs to the Veonics® Print Queue Manager for printing?

Once a card record's status is Approved, it can be sent to a Print Queue. Once Enqueue, print jobs are released to associated printers using the vPQM desktop application.

Sending Card Records to the Print Queue

• Requires user rights to send or print for the queue
  
  • When viewing an approved card
  • When managing cards in a group
    
    • Only approved cards may be sent to a queue
    • The user may filter  by “Enqueued” status or by the specific queue cards assigned to
• The user must choose which queue to send the cards to
  
  • Typically, a dropdown
  • If the number of available queues is large, then an autocomplete control is used
    
    • Type a few characters to retrieve a list of matching queues
• If the card is already in a queue, it gets reassigned to the specified queue
• A user may also remove a card that is already enqueued
  • Returns to “approved” state
• Or put the card “on hold”
  • Remains in the queue but won’t print in vPQM

Printing Cards from the vPQM

• Upon opening the vPQM™ the user must authenticate with username, password, and name of the assigned station
• After successfully authenticating, the user may choose the printer and queue to connect to
  • Here, the user may also configure the printer settings to obtain better results
• vPQM™ displays the list of cards waiting to be printed in the queue
  • The user may select the desired cards and click “Print”
    • Note: all cards are selected by default

Printer Configuration

• Each printer may produce slightly different results
• The “Settings” screen permits adjustments to printer properties to obtain the best possible results and are saved for future executions

• Current settings include
  • X/Y (horizontal/vertical) offset in pts (1/72th of an inch, default 0)
  • X/Y zoom factor (default, 100%)
• One common reason for adjusting printer properties is achieving full-bleed in printers that support it
• The “Test” button prints a sample grid pattern to help in the adjustment of these parameters

“Automatic” Printing

• Enable automatic printing to release print jobs from the queue without user intervention
  
  • It is also possible to run in automatic mode by specifying “-a” as a command-line argument
• When printing automatically, vPQM™ periodically polls the server to see if new cards have been sent to the queue, and if so, selects them and starts to print them
  • This enables the vPQM to run in the background
  • It is recommended that the operator periodically check the status of the printer and vPQM™ regarding hardware or connectivity issues that require human intervention and prevent operation