On 2009-10-25, at 8:53 PM, Ramsey Lee Gurley wrote:
No, that would be crazy, even for me (^_^)
I was just wondering if it were possible to set up a client Mac to
print automatically to a specific printer based on characteristics
of the print job. So, let's say I have a color inkjet printer, a
black and white laser printer, and a star receipt printer. If I
print out a picture, I want the picture to go to the color printer.
If I'm printing a black and white, text only document, then I want
that to go to the laser, and if I have a print job that is 7cm wide,
it should go to the receipt printer. Automatically... or at the
very least, pre-selected in the print dialog so that all I have to
do is hit the enter key to print. It seems the only options I
really have is to select a specific printer, or default to the last
printer used. I'm wondering if it is possible to select the "most
appropriate" printer based on characteristics of the print job.
CUPS looked pretty neat. I imagined there might be some hidden
configuration magic in it, so I thought I would ask the list to see
if anyone know of any. (^_^)
You might want to check with the MacEnterprise list. That sounds more
up their alley. <http://www.macenterprise.org/>
Mucking with CUPS is the kind of thing they "enjoy" ;-P
Ramsey
On Oct 25, 2009, at 6:39 PM, Andrew Lindesay wrote:
Hi Ramsey;
Do you mean that you would like to change the default printer on a
users' machine from a web page?
cheers.
Are you able to just print directly to the printer from the
application server?
...
Is it possible, if I have control of the client machines, to
select a printer based on the printed page size? Also, is it
possible to bypass the print dialog? I tried searching the
Apple printing list but didn't come up with a lot of answers...
...
I was thinking of something like a star printer hooked to a client
machine. Is there anything in OS X that would let me configure
the OS to automatically send jobs to the right place? I found
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