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

[Andrew Baudouin]

My company uses this method, and I guess it works well, though it isn't 100%
foolproof.

It's definitely at least 100 proof, though.

On 4/26/07, Tim Fournet <tfournet at tfour.net> wrote:
>
>  *snip*



One thing you can do to mitigate the confusion is to use Banner sheets.
> Each print job will be preceded by a special page that shows the
> username of the person who printed it. You can be creative with the
> banner sheet to make it easy to identify, maybe put a border, or if it's
> a color printer, use a color pattern so that someone sorting through the
> sheets can find the banner pages easily. You could even set aside one of
> the printer's drawers for banner sheets and put colored paper in it so
> they really stick out.
>
> Does this help any?
> -Tim
>
>
> John Hebert wrote:
> > 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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