Database property names for printers
Messages about printers might refer to properties by their database names. Not all properties are applicable to all types of printers.
Some of the values that you see in drop-down lists in the user interface are not the same as the values that RICOH ProcessDirector uses internally. When you make some requests using Web services or set values using an overrides file, you must use the internal value. The Internal values column lists the internal values for those properties.
In the Editable column:
- Yes means that an authorized user can change the value after the printer has been created.
- No means that an authorized user cannot change the value.
Printer properties
| Database name | Notebook tab: field name | Brief description | Internal values | Editable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CustomPDFPrinter.ImportPrinter | General: Custom PDF Printer Server | Select the printer server where you want to define a Custom PDF printer device. | No | |
| CustomPDFPrinter.PrinterType | General: Custom printer type | Specifies the type of printer to define as a Custom PDF printer object. | Yes | |
| JdfDirectPrinter.VPName | General: Virtual printer name | Specifies the name of the virtual printer as defined on the Ricoh TotalFlow printer object. | Yes | |
| JdfOutputPrinter.PrinterType | General: Type of printer | Specifies the printer type. | The list of all printers that can be connected as Ricoh PDF printers. | Yes |
| JdfOutputPrinter.BannerPage.Tray | Banner Pages: Banner page input tray | Specifies the printer’s input tray that holds the paper for header and trailer pages. | Yes | |
| JdfOutputPrinter.JobStatusPolling | General: Job status polling interval | Defines how frequently the Ricoh PDF or Custom PDF printer requests updates about the status of a job. | Yes | |
| JdfOutputPrinter.MergeBanner | Banner Pages: Merge banner pages into PDF print file | Specifies whether or not header and trailer banner files are merged into the PDF print file or sent to the printer as separate files. |
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Yes |
| JdfOutputPrinter.Port | General: Printer port | Specifies the communications port for the printer. | Yes | |
| JdfOutputPrinter.URL | General: Printer URL | Specifies the host name or TCP/IP address that is used to communicate with the printer. | Yes | |
| PassThroughPrinter.CodePage | General: Code page | Specifies the code page that the printer uses to interpret the printer command. | Yes | |
| PassThroughPrinter.Command | General: Printer command | The command that is used to submit jobs to the printer. | Yes | |
| PassThroughPrinter. ControlFileTemplate | General: Control file template | Specifies the full path name of the control file template that maps job properties to printer command parameters. | Yes | |
| PassThroughPrinter.MergeBanner | Banner Pages: Merge banner pages into PDF print file | Specifies whether or not header and trailer banner files are merged into the PDF print file or sent to the printer as separate files. |
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Yes |
| PassThroughPrinter.ValidRCs | General: Valid return codes | Contains a list of return code values that the printer command can issue to indicate that the job printed successfully. | Yes | |
| Printer.CommunityName | SNMP: Community name | Specifies the name of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) community to which the printer belongs. | Yes | |
| Printer.CurrentJobID | Status: Current job number | Specifies the job number of the job that is currently assigned to the printer. | No | |
| Printer.CurrentJobName | Status: Current job name | Specifies the name of the job that is currently assigned to the printer. | No | |
| Printer.CurrentJobPagesStacked | Status: Current job pages printed | Shows the number of pages that have been printed for the job that is currently assigned to the printer. | No | |
| Printer.CurrentJobProgress | Status: % Printed | Shows the current page that is printing for the job that is currently assigned to the printer, as a percentage of the total pages in the job. | No | |
| Printer.CurrentJobTotalPages | Status: Total pages in current job | Shows the total number of pages in the job that is currently assigned to the printer. | No | |
| Printer.CurrentStatus | Status: Last status message | If the printer status is Disconnected or Needs attention, contains the most recent error or warning message received about the printer. Otherwise, contains the most recent informational message received about the printer. | No | |
| Printer.CustomerName | Scheduling: Customer name | Specifies the customer name that is assigned to the printer. | Yes | |
| Printer.Description | General: Printer description | Contains text that describes the printer object. | Yes | |
| Printer.Enabled | Status: Enabled status | Specifies whether RICOH ProcessDirector can schedule jobs to the printer. | No | |
| Printer.EnhancePDFFilter | General: Action list | Specifies one or more actions that can be applied to a PDF file and JDF file before it is sent to the Ricoh PDF or Ricoh TotalFlow printer. | Yes | |
| Printer.FirstSegmentSize | General: PDF first segment size | Specifies the size, in pages, of the first PDF job segment that is sent to the printer. | No | |
| Printer.FoldCapable | Scheduling: Folding capable | Specifies whether the printer can fold pages in different ways depending on the job assigned. | Yes | |
| Printer.HeaderExit | Banner Pages: Enable header pages | Controls whether the printer prints a header page at the beginning of each job. |
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Yes |
| Printer.ID | Displayed in the properties notebook title: Printer name | Contains the name of the printer. | No | |
| Printer.Instance | General: Printer server | Specifies the name of the RICOH ProcessDirector server that sends jobs to this printer. | Yes | |
| Printer.JobSize | Scheduling: Job size supported | Specifies the size of the jobs in sheets that RICOH ProcessDirector can schedule to the printer. | Yes | |
| Printer.Language | General: Printer language | Indicates what language the printer driver component uses when it returns messages to RICOH ProcessDirector. | Yes | |
| Printer.LastModified | General: Last modified | The date and time that the printer was last changed. | No | |