Printer job history

Publish date: 2024-05-16
Printer job history

9.2.5 Printer job history

From a printer “MANAGE” screen, see Figure 9.9, clicking the HISTORY” tab shows the history of what print jobs the printer has performed; see Figure 9.28. Unlike account activity, where only recent activity is retained, the Polar Cloud retains printer history indefinitely.

Figure 9.28: Polar Cloud printer HISTORY screen

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The “SEARCH” button (towards the upper right of the “HISTORY screen, below the “SETTINGS” tab), allows searching for print jobs via criteria such as Job Name or member Display Name.

Figure 9.29: Printer HISTORY job tile

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Each individual print job tile on the printer “HISTORY screen, see Figure 9.29, displays several pieces of information including:

Clicking on the three vertical dots at the upper right of a print job tile will bring up a menu (Figure 9.30) at which a printer manager or a print job’s owner may download the object’s .stl files or its slicing profile, download the print job G-code, or “Requeue Job” to reprint the object; such print queue operations will be discussed further in Section 10.5.

Figure 9.30: Polar Cloud printer HISTORY print job menu

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Clicking generally (other than on the three vertical dots) on the tile of a particular object in the printer history will bring up a screen with more detailed information regarding that print job; see Figure 9.31. Besides “DETAILS” (the objects in that job, when it was queued and by whom, and when completed), other information about a print job includes “COMMENTS” showing any comments left by the printer manager or job owner – see Figure 9.32, a SNAPSHOT” showing the completed object(s) of the job – see Figure 9.33, and (with printers that support keeping a time-lapse video, such as Polar3D printers and OctoPrint controlled printers) a “TIME LAPSE” video of the completed print job – see Figure 9.34.

Figure 9.31: Printer history of a print job: DETAILS

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Figure 9.32: Printer history of a print job: COMMENTS

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Figure 9.33: Printer history of a print job: SNAPSHOT

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Figure 9.34: Printer history of a print job: TIME LAPSE video

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Note that IFTTT applets are available to automatically post a completed print job’s SNAPSHOT photo or TIME LAPSE video to Facebook.

Note: When viewing printer “HISTORY”, the display shows only your own print jobs and print jobs performed during times you were a manager (or a member of a group with “Control Printers shared access to) a printer. Even if you are a manager of the printer now, any print jobs submitted before you became a manager will not be displayed to you. Or if you used to be a manager of the printer but are not a manager now, you will see all print jobs submitted by other members during that time you were manager, but not more recently submitted print jobs by other users. This is intended for cases such as a printer traded-off between teachers from semester to semester, where a teacher may wish to continue to see the history of the print jobs performed by the teacher’s own students when the teacher was previously managing the printer, but does not need to see print jobs of students now using the printer under a different teacher’s supervision.

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