Shared printers setup/configuration

Lord Chaos · 06-09-2009, 06:48 AM

This question pertains to Windows Server 2003 and 2008.

All our network printers around the building are centrally mounted on our server and is then shared out from it.

Is there any way to make it so that in case a printer is down, has to be replaced or otherwise is offline, that if the printjob queue becomes more than X printjobs long, then it is to refuse all further printjob, instead of just piling dozens of printjobs up and then printing them all days later when everything is fixed?

Perhaps some sort of configuration or script could do it.

Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.

Lord Chaos · 06-09-2009, 11:16 AM

Another way might be to give printjobs a "time to live" so they expire if they don't get printed out after so and so long.

Is there anyway to do that (its many different kinds of printers)

06-09-2009, 06:48 AM	#1 (permalink)
Lord Chaos Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 187 OS: XP SP3 and Vista SP1	Shared printers setup/configuration This question pertains to Windows Server 2003 and 2008. All our network printers around the building are centrally mounted on our server and is then shared out from it. Is there any way to make it so that in case a printer is down, has to be replaced or otherwise is offline, that if the printjob queue becomes more than X printjobs long, then it is to refuse all further printjob, instead of just piling dozens of printjobs up and then printing them all days later when everything is fixed? Perhaps some sort of configuration or script could do it. Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.

06-09-2009, 11:16 AM	#2 (permalink)
Lord Chaos Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 187 OS: XP SP3 and Vista SP1	Re: Shared printers setup/configuration Another way might be to give printjobs a "time to live" so they expire if they don't get printed out after so and so long. Is there anyway to do that (its many different kinds of printers)