Hi all,
This is quite a bit OT since the only thing related to Lazarus is that I
will use to write the software.
One of my company's main products does a lot of prep notifications to
various printers on the network. For a single order (sale), prep
instructions can be sent to up to 6 different printers.
One of the things that has always been a problem with doing this kind of
critical printing in windows has been the lack of status or way of
querying printers (many are on print servers). I remember there was a
way to send a fake print job and monitor using the Win32 API, but I had
difficulty getting reliable printer status and it doesn't seem to work
very well.
Is this kind of printer monitoring possible in Linux? We are thinking
about putting together a kind of Linux Appliance to do this and move the
printing portion away from Windows, assuming printer status is
obtainable on Linux like outlined above.
Thanks for input.
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Warm Regards,
Lee
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