After receiving a print job from a Macintosh, Access Connect uses one of several processing methods to process it. These methods include Windows print queues, AppleTalk printers, LPR printers, and “hot folders”—special output directories where additional software, such as a RIP or OPI server, can process the job. In addition, you can view the print jobs in progress, speed or delay processing of jobs, and delete jobs from the list. Macintosh clients can use IP or Appletalk to print to the Access Connect Print Server.
The Access Connect Print Server logs many aspects of the print jobs that your users send to the server—job name, name of the user that sent the job, time and date of printing, page size, number of pages, size of job in bytes, address of the computer that printed the job, and the name of the print queue used. You can export this log automatically to a text file that can be imported into an accounting or other cost-tracking system.
Print Accounting captures and tracks additional information of your choosing and requires that the Macintosh client enter one or more billing codes that you set up before printing to a queue. The accounting information is added to the log of the print job and can be imported into standard accounting and cost-tracking systems. See Using Print Accounting for additional information on using Print Accounting. For information on viewing or retrieving the log, see the article on Keeping track of activities with the log.