# PrintStation handbook

Set up workstation printing, follow each copy and investigate uncertain output across SmartFACT products.

Source: https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/printstation

Review edition: 25 October 2026



## Guides and help pages

- [Start here: PrintStation Owner](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/printstation/owner): Set up a workstation or agent, bind its printer and qualify the intended stock.
- [Start here: Operator](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/printstation/operator): Follow the source product’s print request and check the copy outcome at the printer.
- [Start here: Supervisor](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/printstation/supervisor): Investigate transport outcomes and coordinate any further print with the source product.
- [Who can do what in PrintStation](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/printstation/roles-and-actions): Separate printer setup, transport investigation and authority from the source product.
- [Enter printer setup, calibration and investigation evidence](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/printstation/input-reference): Use the selected printer profile, actual measurements and supported uncertainty observations.
- [Qualify a printer and media profile](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/printstation/qualification): Print the calibration copy, measure it and record the real result.
- [Understand jobs, copies and print attempts](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/printstation/copy-states): Read transport evidence without confusing submission with physical output.
- [Investigate and record uncertain output](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/printstation/uncertain-output): Check the physical printer and record what you found before further printing.
- [Manage destinations and printer changes](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/printstation/destinations): Keep source products, printer bindings and qualification aligned when routing changes.
- [Worked handover: an uncertain production copy](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/printstation/worked-handover): Investigate the original attempt and return the decision about further printing to its source product.
- [Install and recognise the PrintStation app](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/printstation/install-app): Choose the offered build for the actual printing computer and resolve discovery problems.
- [Pair an agent and prepare its printer](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/printstation/agent-setup): Compare the real computer fingerprint before approval, binding and calibration.
- [Control which products may print](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/printstation/allowed-products): Keep organisation allowance, destination products and earlier print requests distinct.
- [Run a signed-in test and retain its result](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/printstation/saved-tests): Distinguish an unsaved quick check, a saved measurement and printer calibration.
- [Follow an attended print from the source product](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/printstation/attended-printing): Check this workstation and exact copy outcomes before the physical handover.