The Send-To Queue lets you stage designs to presets as you work through an event, then send everything in one action. This tutorial covers staging, the Send all button, what happens to each row after a send, and the collapsible pane in Studio.
Where the queue lives
The queue is part of the Send To panel:
- Design editor — the Send To tab in the right-hand panel, next to Properties.
- Studio — the collapsible Send To pane on the right edge of the screen.
It's the same queue in both places: your staged sends follow you between Studio and the editor. The queue is personal (per user) and saved on the server, so it persists across page reloads — stage an event over an hour, reload, switch designs; nothing is lost until you send or clear it.
The queue is also per computer. Items you stage on one machine don't appear — and can't be sent — on another, even when you're signed in as the same user. This pairs with your print location, which is itself a per-computer setting: each computer keeps its own staged queue and sends to its own location, so work staged on one machine can never dispatch to another machine's printer.
Stage designs
- Open a design (or select designs in Studio).
- In the Send To panel, the Destinations section lists your presets, each with a number key badge.
- Click a preset — or press its digit key 1–9 — to add the current design to the queue under that preset.
Each staged row appears in the Queue section. The destination preset's name gets a full-width line of its own at the top of the row — it's the thing you scan for, so it wraps onto a second line rather than getting cut off. Everything else shares the line below it: the design name, a short summary of where it's headed, and the row's send status, all sitting next to the quantity stepper. Staging the same design to the same preset again bumps that row's quantity instead of adding a duplicate row — you can also adjust copies with the row's +/− stepper, or click the quantity and type a number directly (it's clamped to the queue's range of 1–99). The stepper controls are large and easy to tap. The Queue header counts total quantity across all rows, not just rows.
If the panel shows "Nothing queued.", the hint below it reminds you: "Click a destination or press 1–9 to stage."
Send all at once
When the event (or the batch) is staged, fire everything:
- Click Send all at the bottom of the panel — the button shows the total count, e.g. Send all (12).
- Or just press Enter — the ⏎ hint on the button is a real shortcut.
Each design renders and is delivered to every destination in its preset. Each row says where it stands in words rather than showing a bare spinner: sending… while it's in flight, then needs attention or retry if it comes back needing you.
What happens to each row
- Success — rows that deliver to every destination clear from the queue automatically. An empty queue after a send means everything landed.
- Failed — the row stays, marked retry. Click the row to retry just that item.
- Needs attention — the row stays, marked needs attention. Something needs your input before this item can send — for example a missing value in the destination's file path. Click the row and a prompt walks you through fixing it, then the item retries.
To remove a single row without sending it, click the remove button pinned to the row's top-right corner. It's always there — dimmed until you hover the row, so it works on a touchscreen too — and it sits deliberately far from the quantity stepper, so a mis-tap can't discard a staged print. To empty the whole queue, click Clear all in the Queue header.
The collapsible pane in Studio
In Studio you can collapse the Send To pane to a thin strip to reclaim canvas space — click the collapse arrow in the pane header. The collapsed strip still shows a count badge with your staged total, so you always know work is waiting. Click anywhere on the strip to reopen the pane. The open/collapsed state is remembered across reloads.
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