Not "automatic" but you could like run a script that
asks what room they are in
& then sets windows default printer to it. At least
then they would only have to
run the menu once upon entering the room rather than
choosing the right printer
for each print job or worse having to know how to set
the default printer.
For automatic I think you'd have to use something
really short range like RFID &
a reader (USB dongle???) that would call a script to
set the default printer
when it sensed a new tag.
Another idea is maybe local only printing via USB and
all the same model printer
so you'd just "dock" & have the right printer all
the time. Makes me wonder:
Did wireless USB connectivity ever hit the market
finally?
Tharin Olsen wrote:
> Hey guys, just began a new project this week and I
thought I'd try and pick the brain of the collective.
I'm going to be helping out a small charter school in
my town and need to get most of their IT needs in
order and very quickly. They received some generous
grants and bought lots of desktops and laptops and
what not but it has not been rolled out in an
organized fashion yet. No domain, active directory,
group policies, antivirus protection, web filtering,
etc. As usual I come into the picture after all or
most of this money has been spent and the equipment
has already been purchased. ::sigh::
>
> One interesting problem is that the teachers each
have their own laptop and they go from classroom to
classroom. The students stay put. I informed the head
of the faculty that I will need to install the drivers
and what not for the network printers onto each of the
teachers laptops so that the teachers can start
printing. Since the teachers move around they won't be
printing to the same printer all the time, they will
need to print to the one that is physically closer to
them. I figured I would just install the printers and
name them based on their physical location. When a
teacher would need to print something, they would
choose the appropriate printer from their printer list
first then hit the print button. Simple, yes? Well
they think this might be too complicated for their
teachers. They want to hit print and automagically
have the computer route the print job to the nearest
printer instead. I have no idea how to do this.. well
I suppose one could
> have something that sensed which wireless access
point their notebook was connected to then based on
that route it to the nearby printer but I still
wouldnt know how to do that...
>
> So have any of gurus on here done something like
this? Or should I tell them to suck it up and learn
how choose a printer from the six that are available?
:)
>
> -Tharin Olsen
>
>
>
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