Job color to report
Specifies whether RICOH ProcessDirector reports to Avanti Slingshot that pages in a job were printed in full color or in single color. When Slingshot assigns different charges to jobs printed in full color or only in black, use this property to report the ink or toner information.
Values:
- Black
- RICOH ProcessDirector reports that all pages or sheets were printed in black. Use this value for a black with white printer or a color printer set to print only using black ink or toner.
- Color
- RICOH ProcessDirector reports that all pages or sheets were printed with CMYK ink or toner. Use this value for a color printer set to print in full color.
- From job
- RICOH ProcessDirector retrieves the values for number of color and single-color pages printed from Ricoh TotalFlow Print Server. Use this value with Ricoh TotalFlow printers, especially if jobs are printed in a combination of single-color and full color pages.
- Not set (default)
- RICOH ProcessDirector reports that all pages or sheets in a job were printed only with black ink or toner.
- Database name
- Printer.JobColorType
Usage notes:
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RICOH ProcessDirector does not use this property to schedule jobs to printers.
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This property does not control whether the printer prints in full color or only in black. The property is used only to report to Slingshot that a job was printed in full color or in black.
- If this property is set to Black or Color, the value of the Print unit to report property controls whether RICOH ProcessDirector reports pages or sheets printed. If this property is set to From job, RICOH ProcessDirector always reports the number of pages.
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If you use the Black or Color values, you cannot report that some pages in a job were printed in full color and other pages were printed only in black. For example, you have a 100-page PDF file. Three of the pages are in color. You send the file to a printer with the Job color to report property set to Black. RICOH ProcessDirector reports to Slingshot that all 100 pages were printed only in black.
- When you use the From job value, the counts reported by the TotalFlow Print Server are impressions, which usually match pages. Differences can be introduced if a job contains pages with different page sizes, such as both Letter and A4.