Making jobs process and print sooner
Job priority is a numerical value from 1 through 999. RICOH ProcessDirector processes jobs with a priority of 1 through each of their steps before other jobs with lower priorities that are queued to the steps. For example, RICOH ProcessDirector processes jobs with a priority of 50 through the steps at a later time, and processes jobs with a priority of 99 at an even later time.
The Job priority property of a job is not a required property, although it might be set by a step based on the SetJobPropsFromTextFile step template. If you configure the step to set the Job priority property, consider having the step set the value between 10 and 999. You can then use the values from 1 through 9 to move jobs through the workflow faster.
Changing the priority of a job to 1 does not suspend all processing of other jobs, and does not move this job through the workflow immediately. Changing the priority moves the job to the front of the queue for processing in each step of its workflow. If two jobs have the same priority, RICOH ProcessDirector processes the first of the jobs that arrives at a step.
To make one or more jobs process and print sooner:
- In the Jobs table, select the job or jobs that you want to process sooner.
- Right-click one of them and select Set Priority.
- For each job, enter a value for the Priority property.Keep in mind that RICOH ProcessDirector considers any job with an assigned priority value more important than a job without a priority value.
- Optional: From this page, you can use the Schedule action to request a specific printer for the jobs.
- Click OK.