Distinguishing the Xi-Text offline State From error
What puts a printer offline rather than into error, and why nothing is written to the log when it happens
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Diagnosing Why an Xi-Text Job Will Not Print
Every condition tested before a job reaches a printer, and why an unmatched job waits for ever, reporting nothing
Reading the Xi-Text System Log (spshed_reps)
What Xi-Text writes to its system log, the much longer list of what it never writes, and why rotating it destroys it
Setting Up and Working With Xi-Text Alignment Pages
How an alignment page is configured, and why it prints at the first job rather than when the printer starts
Stopping and Starting All Xi-Text Printers at Once
The pattern form that halts or starts every printer in one command, and the four things a restart does not bring back
Identifying and Removing Redundant Xi-Text Jobs and Printers
What the queue deletes by itself, why a printer's state is no evidence of disuse, and the two-stage removal
Determining When an Xi-Text Printer Was Last Used
Xi-Text records no last-used time, so the only evidence is the optional per-printer log - what it holds and omits
What Travels Between Machines, and What Does Not
Why the saved state is bound to one machine, and why moving a system is always a re-licensing event
Migrating Xi-Text to Another System
Exporting the print queue, printers and users with xt-backup, and restoring them on a newly licensed machine
Sizing the Xi-Text Shared Memory Queue
What the start-up numbers allocate, when the segments grow, and what happens when they cannot
Installing an Emergency Seven-Day Licence on Xi-Text
Recovering a system whose licence has been lost or damaged with xt-emerglic, and replacing it with a permanent licence
Renewing an Xi-Text Licence Without an Operator
Scheduling the stop, running xt-vwrite non-interactively, reading xt-checklic, and what the exit statuses mean