[cups.general] Can I pool printers?

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Sat Jul 17 22:48:04 PDT 2010


Printer classes do what you want - you can create one via the CUPS web interface:

    http://localhost:631/admin


On Jul 17, 2010, at 9:23 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I have a customer that lives and dies on his printer.
> I would like to put two printers side by side.
> 
> Is there a way the users can send print jobs to
> one printer that is actually two printers?
> 
> If one breaks or runs out of paper, the other takes over.
> If both are working, they share the load.  (They both
> don't print the same thing.)
> 
> Many thanks,
> -T
> 
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