Managing DRC

DRC is managed the same as any other device in System Manager. A single physical device is created for each printer regardless of how many DRC clients are printing to it. Under each physical device, a port and a print queue are created for each DRC client workstation.

Go to System Manager > Devices > Workstation Devices to select and configure multiple DRC clients.

To minimize network traffic, configuration changes in System Manager are not immediately reflected on the workstations. On startup, each DRC synchronizes its cache with CAS if the DRC cache does not exist or is older than 24 hours. To prevent all of the workstations from synchronizing at the same time, automatic synchronization occurs according to a random time schedule between midnight and 6 AM. The cache contains configuration settings from System Manager for each Direct IP printer used by the workstation. Cache synchronization has the potential to send the largest amount of data. The size is dependent upon such things as the printer name, number of rules, and so on.

To manually force an immediate synchronization, do the following: