Re: Possible to send a HOLD at PRINTER job from i?

[VERNON HAMBERG Owner <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We have a similar setup to yours, Charles - we have Konica-Minlota BizHubs in departments - at least, we have 4 of them on this floor. No local printers on anyone's desk at all now. And we do what you do.


Now it's been awhile, but I believe it is possible to map an IBM i user profile as an alias in Active Directory. A print device on the i would point to some IP address on the network for the managed printing, so things queue up. And the alias makes the IBM i stuff come up under your Windows user.

Of course, there's work to be done to set it up. Probably not much in the way of device descriptions, though, necessarily.


We don't have much actual printing done now - we use Robot Reports for users, which converts things to PDF or ??? and puts them on a network file share or some such.


We've not yet given users the ability to use the Printer Output action of ACS - I believe there are ways to limit what people can do with that, so maybe that's an option.


HTH
Vern


On Tue, 30 Jul, 2024 at 3:12 PM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 

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Probably going to depend on _how_ this is being accomplished for your
Windows printing.

It seems likely to be some combination of the printer hardware and some
software package.

For instance, I don't see our network attached printers in Windows.  All I
see is "My Company Secure Print" as a printer.

After printing to that, I can walk to a printer, swipe my badge and get my
printout.

I'd suspect that in order for your IBM i to participate, you're going to
- have to be using SSO/Kerberos, so that there's a single "user"
- possibly have to redefine the printers on your IBM i. (and use SNMP or
IPP as a protocol)

Just some thoughts off the top of my head.

HTH,
Charles

On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 1:20 PM Ken Meade via MIDRANGE-L <
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> All,
>
> Like a lot of companies we are looking at minimizing the number of
> printers we have, but one of our concerns is that print jobs will pile up
> at the printer.
> I know that I can set up a driver configuration on my local Windows
> machine to do a HOLD at the printer and I enter a code at the printer to
> get my jobs when I'm ready for them.
> In fact that is what we plan on doing for all users as we set up their
> local machines and primary printers.
> We'd like to replicate this same thing for jobs that come from our i, is
> this even possible?
>
> Thanks,
> Ken
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