Automatic printer selection (routing)

Question

Microsoft

Situation:
An office of 10-15 people equipped with two or three printers:
1. Laser MFP with the ability to scan over the network and a small monthly resource (~ 1000 pages) - for infrequent printing of 1-2 page documents. It's in the office.

2. A laser printer with a large monthly resource for printing large volume documents (10..300 pages) with a low cost of printing. It stands "on the floor", i.e. you have to walk behind the printout with your feet.

NATURALLY, a girl manager, having the ability to send to the nearest printer, WILL send large documents to the nearest printer (with a high cost of printing and low resource). (“Oh, I forgot ...”, “But it itself somehow ...”). And this problem cannot be solved by any organizational measures, only technically.

That. it is necessary to somehow make one “virtual” printer in the system and route documents depending on the type of job.
Judging by the existence in nature of products like www.tricerat.com/products/screwdrivers ‎, we can conclude that everything is not rosy with printing in the Windows system ...

While offhand, a collective farm solution was thought up - to use a PDF printer (www.bullzip.com/products/ pdf/‎) followed by routing by a VBS script depending on the number of pages in the PDF.

Answer 1

It is possible to create a virtual logical printer and set rules (priority at least). It's called "pool printers", print pools.
www.oszone.net/579/old.windowsfaq.ru/ubb/Forum3/HTML/005639.html
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Answer 2

For starters
, itreality.ru/page/ustanovka-pula-printerov

Answer 3

The above methods only group printers into a pool, not allowing finer control over queues and jobs, unfortunately.