bryanr

I've got a user who prints a couple hundred sales invoices a day to our main copier/printer, usually 50-75 documents at a time. This can take a while waiting for them to print. My other users get frustrated when they are in line waiting for a document behind these invoices.

-- I don't want to make everyone a memeber of the Print Operators because then people will have to walk to the printer, see the invoices printing, go back to their desk, change their job priority, then walk back to their printer. That won't go over well.

-- They won't purchase a seperate printer for this person doing invoices since she only prints them a few times a day.

So, is there any way within Windows to assign a permanent printing priority based off a username or a document? If I can assign all users High priority but user X this should solve the problem. Or if I can assign document invoice.doc permanent low priority it should also solve it. Is there anyway to do either of these? Thanks.

ldivinag

check the printer driver.

i coulda sworn some have this feature.

in netware, there was a feature like that.

can this user deal with a $100-150 printer?

green91runner

hmm, i dont think there is anything in windows that will assign priorities that your requesting... if you listed some more details about what printer model you have and what the network is running with which OS, i can take a look around and see if i find something.

ldivinag

the new dell color printers i just bought has a WAIT UNTIL THE USER REACHES THE PRINTER to print feature.

user issues a print job. only when they get to the printer and hits a button or 2 does the job start to print.

meanwhile all other jobs print around it....

midiwall

Yeup... It's there on my Panasonic P7305.

From the user's workstation:

• Control Panel | Printers
• Right click on the printer
• Click Properties
• Click Advanced
• "Priority" is there.

Setting it from this point will be relative to the user's workstation, not the printer globally. So what you may need to do is to set all the non-invoice printing people to "10" and then the invoice printing person to "1". The problem then is stopping the users from messing with it on their own.

But, since you've got the network resonably locked down then you have your users working on non-admin accounts and have killed access to the printer control panel. Right?