Fernando, Thanks for the reply.
Are you saying that multiple jobs from the same user are printed together? Or, are the jobs printed as they arrive? My need is to let the users print multiple jobs as one set, then another set of multiple jobs, and so on. I was thinking of training the users to set priorities for their jobs, but that would be a lot of mouse-clicking for each job. John ----- Original Message ---- From: Fernando Vilas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: general at brlug.net Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:08:28 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] sharing a printer among multiple users sending contiguous jobs El Thursday 19 April 2007 19:10:04 John Hebert escribi?: > 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 > I'm running 2 linux boxes here, with CUPS, but I've never had the issue of jumbled pages when printing simultaneously. At work, we're using Trusted Solaris 8, and the printers have their own IP, but again, we have 30+ devs printing lots of files for review, and each job is printed individually, not jumbled. I would have to recommend CUPS on your choice of *nix at this point, but I don't remember seeing that problem, even with a shared printer on MS software. -- Thanks, Fernando Vilas fvilas at iname.com _______________________________________________ General mailing list General at brlug.net http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
