What Functionality Does HPDPS Provide?

You can query a job's status and receive messages telling you how your job is progressing.

HPDPS will validate your job, ensuring that there are printers capable of printing it.

When you submit a job, you can indicate specific characteristics or attributes for your job and the documents in your job. If you need to alter these attributes, you can modify the job at any time until the job begins printing. For example, suppose you submit a job and then realize you need multiple copies or two-sided output. As long as the job is still waiting to print, you can modify the request.

If the printers become too busy or inoperable, you can move your job to another printer without reconstructing the job.

You can select which job-related messages you want to receive. For example, if your printer is located within your work area, you may not want messages related to problems with the printer but you may want to know if your job is cancelled by the administrator before it gets to the printer. If you are sending a high-priority job to a printer that is not located near you, you may want to get detailed information about any significant happenings related to the job. In addition, you can route some job messages to other interested users.