Understanding printer life cycle states

System-generated saved searches show the printers in the following printer life cycle states:

All Printers—All printers in the system.

Managed Printers—Printers that appear can be in any of the following states:

Managed (Normal)

Managed (Changed)

Managed (Missing)

Managed (Found)

Managed (Changed) Printers—Printers in the system whose following properties were changed at the last audit:

Property tag

Host name

Contact name

Contact location

Memory size

Duplex

Supplies (excluding levels)

Input options

Output options

eSF applications

Default printer certificate

Managed (Found) Printers—Printers that were reported as missing, but have now been found.

Managed (Missing) Printers—Printers that the system was unable to communicate with.

Managed (Normal) Printers—Printers in the system whose properties have remained the same since the last audit.

New Printers—Printers that are newly discovered and are not set to a Managed state automatically.

Retired Printers—Printers marked as no longer active in the system.

Unmanaged Printers—Printers marked for exclusion from activities performed in the system.

Beginning state	Ending state	Transition
¹ The "Automatically manage discovered printers" setting is enabled in the discovery profile. ² The "Automatically manage discovered printers" setting is disabled in the discovery profile.
Start	Normal	Discovered.¹
Start	New	Discovered.²
Any	Normal, Unmanaged, or Retired	Manual (Missing does not change to Normal).
Retired	Normal	Discovered.¹
Retired	New	Discovered.²
Normal, Missing, or Found	Changed	New address when discovered.
Normal	Changed	Audit properties do not match the database properties.
Normal, Changed, or Found	Missing	Not found on audit or update status.
Changed	Normal	Audit properties match the database properties.
Missing	Found	Discovered, audit, or update status.
Found	Normal	Discovered, audit, or update status.

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