Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!rutgers!clyde!cuae2!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!ndmath!milo From: milo@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Multi-spoolers Message-ID: <161@ndmath.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Dec-86 14:42:27 EST Article-I.D.: ndmath.161 Posted: Thu Dec 18 14:42:27 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Dec-86 05:15:07 EST Organization: Math. Dept., Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN Lines: 19 Keywords: spooling, multiple printers Xref: mnetor comp.unix.questions:405 comp.unix.wizards:403 Does anyone out there happen to have any (hopefully free) software that allows a single print queue to drive more than one printer at a time? In other words...I have one print queue and several printers. Whenever a printer becomes free I want the next job in the queue to start printing on that printer. There might be as many as 3 identical printers on the system at one time and I don't want to leave the load-leveling job to the users. It would be really nice if each printer could have a "forms type" indicating the type of paper loaded. Then jobs would go to the first printer with the right type of forms loaded. This could be really useful as the lab may eventually have a Laser Printer, 3 band printers, several decwriters and a number of plotters of different types. It would be nice if the users only had to remember what type of forms they wanted and have the system route them to the right printer/plotter automatically. Greg Corson seismo!iuvax!kangaro!milo