auto switch printjob to idle printer

[Anonymous]

Thank's Helge for the tip, that make sense to me.

In most cases it might be a good idea that Cups decides itself
to send the job to an idle printer.
But what do the WXP-users/clients have to do, if  they want to
send a print job to a dedicated printer e.g. because they need
to have their job printed to a special type of paper?

Thank's a lot for any tip. Regards,

John


> You only need to configure the printer members of a class to the common subset of
> features. For example, if one of your printers can do duplex printing, but
> the other one cannot, you must both printers configure as simplex-only machines.
>
> Helge
>
>
> Anonymous wrote:
> >
> > 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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