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Printer Management Console?
GoRK asks: "I maintain a Samba server, the purpose of which is to serve a small farm of printers (5-10) to our Windows clients. These printers range from parallel-port-connected inkjets to network-connected color laser printers and high-volume copiers. I am interested in a printer management console which could provide a simple (read: cursor-keys) interface to someone who manages printing (read: copy boy).
Ideally the console would allow someone to reorder document queues, delete documents from the queue, restart lpd, and pause printing on certain devices. Another extremely slick feature would be the ability to tag a queue'd item to save and reprint again later.
Does anything like this already exist for Linux either in a free or commercial product? lpc works fine for me, but it's not exactly friendly and not exactly feature-rich, especially for the copy boy. "
Well, I have to say that I have tried LPRng, but it still doenst give dummies the control they need. People were even more confused when i tried to explane how to clear the queue with lprng than with lpr. The wrappers didn't help that much either. So I went back to regular old LPR. I found a program on freshmeat called CLPQ, but it really doesnt do much of anything. I've been hacking at it a bit trying to add more features (especially LPRng support and a workaround for the root daemon problem). I'd like to see your scripts, but I don't know if you'll get this since you posted as AC...
At any rate if anyone's interested, CLPQ could use some work. The goals of CLPQ were what I was asking for; too bad it's only a hack!
GoRK
Couple of years ago I wrote simular thing which is essencially a curses-based frontend to lpq Try it