[cups.general] auto switch printjob to idle printer

saravanan venkat_saravanan at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 7 02:51:13 PST 2005


Hello, 
 You could use printer classes. 
Create a class and make the desired printers part of
the class and fire the job to class, which will
automatically send the job to idle printer. 

regards,
saravan

--- Anonymous <anonymous at easysw.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> 
> Printjobs from a "database-job" is feeding -
> depending on the printjob -
> either a laser- or a matrixprinter.
> 
> How can printjobs (coming from WXP-clients) be
> automatically
> be moved to a second/idle printer ? (without the
> need that
> the users need to make any intervention, e.g. like
> selecting
> an other pinter ?
> 
> 
> If that is not that much automatable, is it possible
> that Cups
> would - immediately after firing a job to a busy
> printer - send a
> "message" to the XP-client "printer yxz is busy
> please select
> an other printer" ?
> 
> 
> Any tips are appreciated very much (probably there
> are much
> better approaches available) !
> 
> Thank's,   John
> 
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Possibilities are Infinite !

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