The resulting PDF document is emailed to them as well as put in an automatic shared folder in their name on the appliance. Virtual Printers are created (A4_Blank, A4_On_Letterhead_Background, etc) and users can print to those printers. It is the sort of stable appliance that hasn’t needed to be updated for many years.
I can’t remember what I paid for it, but it has been worth every penny. It is a self contained print appliance that runs as an instance on our VMWare server.
Pros: We can generate PDFs (some have automatic letterhead backgrounds which I couldn’t do with CUPS alone)Ĭons: It means having another print server set up to look after, It means users will no longer get their PDF’s by email (it will go to a new network share).įor several years I’ve used YAFPC (Yet Another Free Pdf Composer).