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software network printer

Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

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Is there such thing as an application that would "listen" for print jobs, like a network printer?

We have this printer at work that keeps getting a crap load of jobs from this other source which are taking ages to respond to my request to look into it so we had to take the printer offline, which hinders the department that uses it.

If I could use a software printer I could flush all the jobs without wasting all that paper, and also see what the jobs are (like, if it makes pdfs or something).
 
It's called a print spooler and is usually how you setup network printers so that jobs can be queued and properly managed.
 
Move the printer to another IP and this time set it up on a print server somewhere. The offisite location will have to reload the printer along with your office, but at least you'll have it under control.
 
Yeah thats out of my control. The setup is horrible. We do have a print server, but another part of the company also has a print server and has it mapped. Some mainframe stuff prints direct to IP as well.... yeah brutal. Lot of crappy propiatary apps with people behind them that don't know how to run them. 😛 Outsourcing programming = bad. Don't do it.
 
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