SUMMARY: Distributed print queues

Thanks to all who answered.
Counting possibilities to implement HA on a spooler side, we finally decided
to implement it on Windows server side.
Vast amount of answers contained CUPS as a keyword.

On 23/02/09 12:49 +0200, Aleks Feltin wrote:
>Hi Managers,
>
>I came that close now with my duties to touch a topic I am not very familiar
>with.
>I have been assigned a goal to research availability methods for Solaris
>printing. Namely, I thought about distributed queue, a class of printers.
>Goal is to have some kind of load balancing between queues pointing to
remote
>printers so that if one printer fails, jobs will be submitted to available
>one. When faulty printer is recovered, jobs must start using it, e.g.
perform
>a kind of failback.
>
>I wonder if anybody have already done something similar. P.S. I am bound to
>using either Solaris or BSD print services.
>
>TIA,
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