I recently had a request to supply a four tray printer. (cant use 2 printers, ask the software department why, long story)
We dont have one in the company and it means purchasing a large, expensive high end printer. This got me thinking, is there a cleverer way of doing this?
Printer Pooling allows you to join multiple identicle print devices into one printer so that the print job is directed to the first available print device.
I can also create multiple printers so that I have one for each tray on a print device. This is good for the users but the IS departments software cant cope.
OK, now changing this idea a little lets say I take 2x HP-4050TN with 2 trays each, I configure them for the 4 different paper types (two types on each print device). Then can I 'pool' them so that one printer will in effect have 4 trays. I feel the answer is "not that easily" but is there a way to create a virtual print device that hooks multiple papertrays together.
Does anyone understand what I'm trying to accomplish?
We dont have one in the company and it means purchasing a large, expensive high end printer. This got me thinking, is there a cleverer way of doing this?
Printer Pooling allows you to join multiple identicle print devices into one printer so that the print job is directed to the first available print device.
I can also create multiple printers so that I have one for each tray on a print device. This is good for the users but the IS departments software cant cope.
OK, now changing this idea a little lets say I take 2x HP-4050TN with 2 trays each, I configure them for the 4 different paper types (two types on each print device). Then can I 'pool' them so that one printer will in effect have 4 trays. I feel the answer is "not that easily" but is there a way to create a virtual print device that hooks multiple papertrays together.
Does anyone understand what I'm trying to accomplish?
