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As usual I post very few, because the time is very short, but has today I made an achievement I was looking to a long time, it deserves a HOW-TO...Here it goes....The Problem:Our office only has one central printer!! (well it has other, but our boss don't wanna buy tonners, I warned him on the buy, that the 2000€ was better buy, but 600€ looked better in that moment.... no comments). This printer we use is a Windows Printer, which means the developer only has drivers for windows. So no Postscript drivers available, what means a great PITA for our PC's with Linux. So since our 600€ printer went out of service me and 3 other colleagues had to bother one of the other windows users every time we needed to print something.As this don't look a problem, imagine the hours that are lost.... And we are all engineers.... There are better ways to spend the money with our time.... So I decided to do it.... I had tried before with REDMON (http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/redmon/index.htm), but with no success, but this time I made a decision to loose a few hours and make it...The Solution:So what I had in mind, was a simple solution.... To have a service running in our Windows SBS2003 that would monitor some folder change, where we would put PDF files and then print them.Linux handles PDF nice, and the users would print to PDF and then place the files on that folder.It looked really nice and as I thought a lot of free software was available, but......

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