About This Page

This page aims to distill the collective wisdom of print queue deployment from the open management consortium community.

Printer Queue Management Goals

• Easy to deploy

• Easy to override for one of changes or testing

• Easy to maintain

• Scalable

• Flexible

• Cross platform

Approaches

In this section we outline some of the various approaches people are taking with regards print queue deployment.

PrinterSetup

PrinterSetupis a CUPs (Common UNIX Printing System) print queue deployment system.

Introduction

PrinteSetup takes the approach of assigning a file system object (PrinterSetupFiles)to each print queue. These files can be grouped as lists in other files. Finally these lists or files are associated with a computer system. Then when printers are to be configured the information in each PrinterSetupFile is used to modify each print queue. This approach scales to allow management of hundreds or thousands of print queues.

Finally, PrinterSetup is intended for use on both client and server machines.

Development

PrinterSetup is under active development. The developers are looking for windows developers to work with the team on a Microsoft Windows port of PrintingWorks.

Related Links

http://www.lucidsystems.org/printingworks/printersetup

http://www.lucidsystems.org/printingworks/printersetup/screencasts