Choose devices to group

The key to creating pull groups is to ensure that all device drivers within the group are technologically compatible. If you want a print job generated for one printer to output successfully on another printer, you must ensure that the other printer can understand all of the print commands included in the data stream from the driver.

If the user specifies staples for the print job, but the target device does not support staples, Equitrac charges for the staples if the associated price list specifies a finishing cost. Similarly, if the user specifies the print job as full color, but releases the job on a machine that supports black and white only, the output is black and white, but Equitrac charges for color, depending on the price list on the release machine, and color attributes that are recorded in the database.

You can also add the same device to multiple pull groups. For example, if you want to enable users to retrieve all print jobs (both color and monochrome) at a color device, but only monochrome print jobs at a monochrome device, you can add the same device to two different pull groups: one groups color devices, the other groups monochrome devices.