What to use as a print server?

Question

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Hello dear toasters. There are 10 printers with network support. Print volume up to 8000 per day. And there are certain task queues for printing. At this time, everything is done using standard Windows tools. But it happens that tasks come from different computers and often you have to run from one computer to another to find out the statuses of tasks. Ideally, one would like to connect everything to one server that receives these tasks, parallelizes everything, manually or automatically, and is available through a web interface. It is desirable to use Linux, but Windows will work too. What can you suggest?

Answer 1

Install all printers on a separate computer. You share these printers on it, and connect printers to users not directly, but these shared ones.
At the same time, you can not even share individual printers, and if some are nearby, they can (should) be pooled and shared as one printer, then the print server will choose a free printer itself. At the same time, if a printer is busy (for example, the cartridge is changing), then the print server will not automatically give jobs to it.
Actually, this is the main role of the print server service in Windows.