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 > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > General at brlug.net > > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20070426/cdb3a933/attachment.html
