print same document to two or more printers

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SORRY SO LONG I JUST WANTED TO EXPLAIN MYSELF FULLY:
I run a company that sends orders out to my factory's networked order
printer. Sometimes my factory foreman seems to tell me orders never
made it out there..that I KNOW got out there...or sometimes I think I
wrote something, and I didnt...OR even sometimes I wrote an order up
wrong, so what I want to do is the following. I want to be able to
send a document to the printer in the factory as well as the same
document to a printer here in my office so that I can A. know that the
order DEFINATELY got printed (since I will have a copy), B. be able to
know what orders are still out there and match up incoming orders with
the sheet I have here, and C. I can be in my office, and look at an
order, see its wrong, and run out ot the factory fix it before it makes
it to the finished product, etc. Is there a program that can either
print to two printers at the same time, OR create something that will
print to the second printer once the first printer is finished..OR last
and worst case scenario, print to file and printer at same time. I
dont want to have to click print twice, etc and take the chance of more
human error
 
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SORRY SO LONG I JUST WANTED TO EXPLAIN MYSELF FULLY:
I run a company that sends orders out to my factory's networked order
printer. Sometimes my factory foreman seems to tell me orders never
made it out there..that I KNOW got out there...or sometimes I think I
wrote something, and I didnt...OR even sometimes I wrote an order up
wrong, so what I want to do is the following. I want to be able to
send a document to the printer in the factory as well as the same
document to a printer here in my office so that I can A. know that the
order DEFINATELY got printed (since I will have a copy), B. be able to
know what orders are still out there and match up incoming orders with
the sheet I have here, and C. I can be in my office, and look at an
order, see its wrong, and run out ot the factory fix it before it makes
it to the finished product, etc. Is there a program that can either
print to two printers at the same time, OR create something that will
print to the second printer once the first printer is finished..OR last
and worst case scenario, print to file and printer at same time. I
dont want to have to click print twice, etc and take the chance of more
human error
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I'm sure something will be able to do this, or possibly some sort of
macro in your document software (Word?) Some printers (maybe yours
does?) keep a record of their print jobs and you can go to the printers
webpage and examine the job log, and depending on settings/options etc
reprint more recent jobs where the entire job is still stored and not
just a record of it.

I think my machine is currently set to store today's jobs. I just had a
quick look and its history seems to have about the last month's prints.
My previous machine seemed to store everything beginning with the year
dot.
 
Ratedr said:
SORRY SO LONG I JUST WANTED TO EXPLAIN MYSELF FULLY:
I run a company that sends orders out to my factory's networked order
printer. Sometimes my factory foreman seems to tell me orders never
made it out there..that I KNOW got out there...or sometimes I think I
wrote something, and I didnt...OR even sometimes I wrote an order up
wrong, so what I want to do is the following. I want to be able to
send a document to the printer in the factory as well as the same
document to a printer here in my office so that I can A. know that the
order DEFINATELY got printed (since I will have a copy), B. be able to
know what orders are still out there and match up incoming orders with
the sheet I have here, and C. I can be in my office, and look at an
order, see its wrong, and run out ot the factory fix it before it makes
it to the finished product, etc. Is there a program that can either
print to two printers at the same time, OR create something that will
print to the second printer once the first printer is finished..OR last
and worst case scenario, print to file and printer at same time. I
dont want to have to click print twice, etc and take the chance of more
human error
Click to expand...


Hi.

Your logic is a touch flawed.

Sending 1 Document to 2 different printers could still result in the
document only being printed by one. You have no idea whether the remote
printer was even switched on or has Paper or Ink.

You really need to set up a logical, foolproof system, which includes order
checking before depatch and then verification after despatch. So that all
orders get processed, and you and everyone else knows that they were
processed correctly.

You are just playing around and need to get your act together before your
entire business vanishes down the plughole.

Roy G
 
A. its not a huge problem
B. the printers are always on..and even if it isnt double-printed the
WORST case scenario is we are just back to where we are now
C. we have been around for close to 70 years, and even if we lose an
order, we are still a week faster than our closest competitor..so I
dont forsee any plugholes arising..at least not from a simple printing
error
What Im looking for, more than a comment on my flawed logic, is some
help from someone as to how to do what I need.
Thank you anyways for your response and I appreciate the concern
 
How about always sending orders via e-mail attachments (assuming you have a
computer at the destination sight, If not, put one there.) Require the
factory to print the attachment order. You might be able to automate the
process. You can save a copy of all orders sent in you e-mail application
and the factory will also have a saved copy of all orders received. Bob F.
 
Ratedr said:
I want to be able to
send a document to the printer in the factory as well as the same
document to a printer here in my office so that I can A. know that the
order DEFINATELY got printed (since I will have a copy), B.
Click to expand...

Not going to happen. You have no proof that it was printed on A because you
have a copy on B. You need a different system that gives you a receipt.
Automated would be nice, but a system where a person has to look at the
order and somehow take responsibility to do something is more reliable.
Given the price of a PC, instead of just a printer, a $400 PC where someone
clicks a mouse would be better.

One of our customers faxes orders and we initial and fax it back. That has
proven 100% for the past two years. Another emails them, but they are sent
to two different recipients and one must send an acknowledgment. That has
worked about 98%, but some just never got here.

Heck, I've run into situations where I'd send a print job to the one on my
desk and even though it shows it was printed nothing ever happened. Regular
printing is not a perfect system so build a different channel for
redundancy. Perhaps you can get some information by contacting the
Department of Redundancy Department.
 
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