auto switch printjob to idle printer

Anonymous anonymous at easysw.com
Thu Dec 8 03:00:22 PST 2005


Thank's for the good idea Saravan.

Is it very important that both printer are the same type,
or are 2 different Postscrip laserprintes as well ok?

Thank's for any feedback! John





> 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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