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Setting up a print que

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Sinlaeshel

IS-IT--Management
Sep 23, 2005
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CA
Hi there,

When looking through documents I need to print, I tend to print out each document that I'll need as I see it. The problem with this is, the documents I print are typically all spaced out, sandwiched between other documents other people have printed. Is there a way to set up documents I would like to print in a que, and then fire them all off to the printer at once? It seems like a simple enough request that XP would support it somewhere. I'd like to avoid having to download third-party software if at all possible. The printer is a network printer, so, disabling it and letting documents stack up in the spool isn't an option.

I know that our particular printer here at the office has the option to 'Secure print', which holds documents at the printer until the employee comes up to the printer and enters a 4-10 digit code. The only annoyance with using this method is I'd have to enter my 4-digit code multiple times, once for each document.

Are there any built-in functionalities like this in XP? Or am I more likely to find help for this particular annoyance in a printer-oriented forum, rather than an OS-oriented one?

Thanks in advance.

 
A rather crude way of doing this would be to select all the documents you want to print and drag and drop them onto a printer icon. The documents should open up in turn and print one after the other.
 
I know with the printer that we are using, there are some options in the advanded properties page that would allow you to do this type of thing, but I'm not sure that they may be resident on your printer. You might want to hit up the printer-oriented forum just in case anyway....
 
The only advanced feature on our printer (Xerox Workcenter Pro 55) that could emulate what I'm trying to perform is the ability to 'delay' documents to be printed at a specific time. Not quite the solution I was looking for, but, an option.

I've posted a thread in the general printer discussion forum regarding this aswell. Thanks for your feedback.
 
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