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From: David Chappell <David.Chappell@mail.trincoll.edu> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:28:40 -0500 Subject: Re: PPR: 'Jake' mode & interface for PPR? Espen H. Koht wrote: > Somewhere in the middle of my list of useful things to do around here, I > have to see if PPR can be set up to get a few printers to work in a > 'Jake'-like mode. Before I go any further, has anyone else done something > like this? > > Jake is a printing package at Columbia which operates in a very way which > would be very useful for us. It works something like this: > > 1) User submits job > 2) Spooler queues job and puts it on hold > 3) User makes her way to the printer, next to which is a terminal > 4) User selects job from a list of held jobs for that printer > 5) User authenticates herself > 6) User selects whether to print or to cancel job (and whether to duplex > print it or not) PPR was origionally written for public printing here at Trinity College. We have sometimes talked about running public printing this way and I have added most of the features needed so that we can do it if we ever want to. We are currently using some of these features to help people send print jobs to our print shop. This application is helping us to iron out the remaining bugs. I believe that, from a technical point of view at least, PPR can do all of the above except changing the duplex setting (which feature is schedualed to be added soon). To make the queue hold new jobs, added add "--hold" to its switchset. A WWW interface which could be run on the "printer console" computer is available, though it might be better to have more stripped-down version. However, cross-platform authentication is still tricky to set up.