[X4U] Printing from remote location to IP printer on my LAN?

[Jens Selvig]

How about if they sent you PDF files? Then you could print multiple  
copies when you needed them.

The 16/600 can have an additional paper tray added. I have one, it  
holds 500 sheets,  and I would imagine that you might find one on  
eBay. I use my 16/600 to print envelopes with the add on envelope  
feeder. This printer has been in service for about a decade and still  
works great.

I am sure you could set up an FTP site for the transcriptions to be  
uploaded and probably even do some sort of apple script to auto  
download and print the PDF files. Or you could use a .Mac account for  
the temporary storage of the PDF files. I use a .Mac account (the  
public folder) to move files to and from one of my printer locations.  
It takes a couple of extra steps to set up a Windows user to be able  
to access the .Mac account but it really is pretty simple.

There certainly are other options for multi tray laser printers too.  
I have an HP 2430 that came with the extra tray which I have been  
very pleased with. It is much faster than the Apple 16/600,  
unfortunately HP didn't make an envelope feeder for it. :(

If you have a static  IP address I'd guess doing the off site  
printing would be feasible. Of course you would need to keep the  
paper trays topped off, especially if the printing was going to  
happen during off hours. One other consideration that comes to mind  
is how many pages would you be printing? The receiving paper tray on  
most of the printers I have seen have a limited space, perhaps a  
couple hundred page capacity and after that you have a really  
impressive mess to pick up!

Jens
...lost in Montana...




On Apr 21, 2006, at 6:25 PM, Jim Robertson wrote:

> In my medical practice we have an unmanaged LAN (2 Macs, 4 PCs)  
> with really
> no shared resources other than the DSL router (IP addresses are  
> done by
> DHCP). We have one Laser printer with a static local IP address.
>
> Currently, we have a local transcriptionist take audio tapes away  
> from the
> office and return one or two days later with hard copy documents on  
> our
> letterhead paper. Eventually, we'll move to electronic medical  
> records, but
> we're not there yet. We'd like to explore a remote transcription  
> service
> where we dictate over the phone and have the medical reports  
> printed in our
> office. The first service we contacted offered to fax the reports,  
> but the
> print quality isn't great, and sometimes the documents are sent to  
> several
> locations, so we need multiple copies.
>
> Would it be difficult to have the remote transcriptionist print to  
> an IP
> printer on our LAN? Would I need to learn how to configure a  
> Windows network
> Domain in order for this to be possible, or could I do it just by
> configuring the printer itself to accept those jobs over the internet?
> Ideally, we'd like the transcriptionist to print as many copies as  
> we need
> from his remote computer, so that when we come in in the morning  
> all we'd
> have to do is print laddress abels from a Dymo labelwriter for  
> reports that
> we send elsewhere.
>
> The IP printer we have now is a LaserWriter 16/600, and undoubtedly  
> we'd
> upgrade to a more contemporary printer with multiple paper trays.  
> I've been
> impressed with the Xerox Phaser I use at home, and I know that they're
> pretty decent workhorses. Does anyone have particular printer
> recommendations?
>
> Thanks so much,
>
>
>
> Jim Robertson
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