[brlug-general] sharing a printer among multiple users sending contiguous jobs

[John Hebert]

Howdy,

I'm trying to solve a problem at work using open source.

My employer wants to let multiple users print multiple jobs, or files, but these jobs have to printed as a contiguous group.

For example, JoeUser wants to print out some accounting reports at the same time MaryUser wants to print out some source code. They both send multiple files, or jobs, to the same printer, but the end result is that the print output is a mixed stack of accounting reports and source code, which requires separating the jobs by hand.

Surely this problem has been solved by software vendors out there, but I was wondering if anyone knew of an open source solution. If it requires CUPS on Linux, then I can go that route.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
John Hebert



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