Introduction

cab Network Manager is an application to administrate cab label printers. The program is written in Java using Java Swing API. This program allows different ways of action. On the following help pages you will find an introduction to the program and how to use it. You will also get information about its limitations and what you have to consider more precise.

The program offers a menu bar, toolbar, pop-up menu and a status bar to interact with (see Picture 1). To speed up the availability the tool provides access via mnemonics and shortcuts, too. It also gives an online help with tool tips references, which will be shown if the mouse pointer is kept longer over e.g. a button. The User's Reference gives an overview about the possibilities of the cab Network Manager.

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Picture 1: cab Network Manager

The main window shows a table of registered printers and a navigation tree on the left hand side. The printers being visible depends on the expanded printer groups. Here is the point to start: Before a printer can be administrated, cab Network Manager needs to know where to find a printer in the network. There are two possibilities to do this - add a single printer or let the Network Manager perform a search in your local network (see cab Network Manager). After a printer is added to the overview its symbolic name, type, IP address and status will be displayed. In the PIN column on the right hand side of the table a displayed key will show, whether a printer is PIN protected. To select a printer make a mouse click with your left mouse button on it. The selected printer will be highlighted. Based on the data of the selected printer you could get further status information, its font and device list (menu bar /Device). To change printer parameters e.g. E-mail alert configurations or CompactFlash card data select the menu bar /Tools. For more information on these topics, see the tools help (Setup, E-mail Alert and CompactFlash tool).

By a right-click on the overview table header it is possible to hide and show table columns. The column containing the printer names cannot be masked out, it is greyed out - see Picture 2 below.

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Picture 2: Context menu to adjust visible columns in the overview table