Remote printing

[Taminol]

[seansbar]

Re: Remote printing

Don't have any idea about cost but Pharos Uniprint can do all that

[TheOwl]

Re: Remote printing

Can you tell me more about the network topology?

Are they all going to be on the same network so to speak, but using VLANs or does each office require their own internet connection?

Will each office have their own server, or possible that they could have their own server?

PaperCut MF is my preferred weapon of choice and could work for you as long as you have someone that knows what they are doing with the network. You could setup IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) for the machine and all jobs would print via the internet back to the PaperCut server. They would then be held by PaperCut until such time as the user walk to the machine and authenticates.

PaperCut can definately do what you want, but it depends entirely on the overall network. My suggestion in this case would be for all the offices to pay a fee for network services and then use VLANs. All VLANs would have access to the print server which would also host PaperCut MF therefore making printing a breeze.

[RollingROARANDA]

Re: Remote printing

Can you tell me more about the network topology?

Are they all going to be on the same network so to speak, but using VLANs or does each office require their own internet connection?

Will each office have their own server, or possible that they could have their own server?

PaperCut MF is my preferred weapon of choice and could work for you as long as you have someone that knows what they are doing with the network. You could setup IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) for the machine and all jobs would print via the internet back to the PaperCut server. They would then be held by PaperCut until such time as the user walk to the machine and authenticates.

PaperCut can definately do what you want, but it depends entirely on the overall network. My suggestion in this case would be for all the offices to pay a fee for network services and then use VLANs. All VLANs would have access to the print server which would also host PaperCut MF therefore making printing a breeze.

Second that, you can even set up account balances in PaperCut per user.. Along with smart card for authentication, the only thing that seems like a caveat is having them print from their individual offices to the print server for the main office.. Owl brings up a good point, this needs a well designed and implemented network setup ( VLANs would do it) to work the way it does in concept.. Sounds awesome though..

[RollingROARANDA]

Re: Remote printing

Just gave it a little more thought, you could try implementing VPN connections to the network which would host both PaperCut and MFP print queue..

One thing that sounds troubling though, is if the virtual print queues begin to fill up as users wait to go to the main office to retrieve their prints ..

At least thats how the situation sounds..??

Post with follow-ups if you could please, this sounds like a killer project.. How rad would that be??

[TheOwl]

Re: Remote printing

Just gave it a little more thought, you could try implementing VPN connections to the network which would host both PaperCut and MFP print queue..

One thing that sounds troubling though, is if the virtual print queues begin to fill up as users wait to go to the main office to retrieve their prints ..

At least thats how the situation sounds..??

Post with follow-ups if you could please, this sounds like a killer project.. How rad would that be??

If using PaperCut MF, the software will stall the print job in the print queue so that if you open up the print queue, you will see a bunch of jobs marked as paused.

When releasing the print jobs from PaperCut via a release station, it will print the jobs that you want, no matter where in the order of the print queue that your jobs are. The queue can hold huge ammounts of print jobs, so I don't think that the queue filling up is going to be an issue.