Hi Gordon,

I use this solution myself, it's really simple and easy to maintain.

The important thing is that you add these, what I call virtual printers, on the printer server. It's also important that you give the virtual printers meaningful names, like OfficePrinterTray1, InvoicePrinterTray3 and so on. I our system we have about 20 virtual printers connected to three real printers. For every combination of printer, tray and output bin we have a virtual printer. One typical name is MainTray1Bin4.

The neat thing is that you only have to configure one PC, the printer server. If you use a Windows server and the workstations use relatively new versions of Windows, the printers will automatically be added again if someone deletes some virtual printers from a workstation. But you even can avoid this problem by using the URL directly, like SET PRINTER TO NAME \\Myserver\MainTray1Bin4.

Also the printer server will handle the printer jobs on a FIFO (first-in-first-out) basis, so your paper will come out of the printers in the correct order.

>Thanks Shafid
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>I had not considered your solution. At first it seemed a quick and simple solution. Having given it further thought I’m not sure how well it would work on a network which could have many printers, some of them with 3 paper trays. I can see user deleting the duplicated printers.
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>Have you had this solution working across a network?