automatic print job labelling like on faxes

[NetworkGeezer]

Printer management software is great most of the time but what happens if users are printing to a printer in another room.

 

Yes I know kow it is possible to have banner pages to identify who sent a particular printer job but these tend to waste a lot of paper and toner/ink.

 

Is there a way to autmatically put a header or footer each page of a print job the identify the user. I am thinking of something like the way faxes print the sender's phone number of company name at the top of each page of a fax.

 

Any ideas?

[pete]

Have a look in this thread - 2nd and 3rd pages should hold what you're after.

 

http://www.edugeek.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=722

[plexer]

Trouble is that only works for word and others where you can have a header/footer and put some code in.

 

Ideal would be some sort of overlay driver to add it to every print no matter what printer or application.

 

Ben

[Ric_]

I seem to remember something about being able to do this with a CUPS-based print server. Not sure where the thread is though.