Proximity Printing
Does anybody know of any reliable proximity printing solutions?
I work for a K-12 school district and the boss wants to be able to have wireless student laptops print to the nearest printer. The catch is he does not want more than one printer installed on the machine to prevent students from spamming printers in other rooms. Bluetooth printing is the solution he is pursuing...this makes me nervous since between 20-30 laptops/users would be using the device in a classroom setting.
I have contacted HP and Lexmark and neither have had a definitive solution. Lexmark mentioned third party apps but could not give me any references.
I work for a K-12 school district and the boss wants to be able to have wireless student laptops print to the nearest printer. The catch is he does not want more than one printer installed on the machine to prevent students from spamming printers in other rooms. Bluetooth printing is the solution he is pursuing...this makes me nervous since between 20-30 laptops/users would be using the device in a classroom setting.
I have contacted HP and Lexmark and neither have had a definitive solution. Lexmark mentioned third party apps but could not give me any references.
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We already have Equitrac on all of our printers... According to our rep we are one of the largest deployments in the US. Equitrac is an absolute disaster and support has been very poor. Print jobs hang, disappear, and the tracking coordinator does not run properly in our 2003 server environment.
I have also contacted HP and Lexmark... I have several high level techs scratching their heads. All said it is possible but not through traditional and proven means. Both also said that BlueTooth was not the solution. However it looks like that is what we are going to do. BlueTooth printing for a lab environment with 30+ users. Garrr...
I have also contacted HP and Lexmark... I have several high level techs scratching their heads. All said it is possible but not through traditional and proven means. Both also said that BlueTooth was not the solution. However it looks like that is what we are going to do. BlueTooth printing for a lab environment with 30+ users. Garrr...
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