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Post New Requests Here / System tray notification of remote computer status
« on: April 27, 2016, 01:11 PM »
Here is my situation. We have a small office, and the girl who prints the checks uses a shared network printer. Sometimes someone else will send a print job through while she is in the middle of doing this, with the check on the manual sheet feeder, and the check will be ruined. The printer will not allow anyone to direct a job to a specific tray. If a sheet is in the manual feeder, it WILL be used in the print job.
I would like for there to be a way for everyone in their separate office, to be able to see whether she is at her desk or not, as she can't very well print checks otherwise.
. Would like to have a little icon in the notification tray that turns green when she's gone, red when she's there. When she's there she will have reserved use of the printer, and I'll have everyone send their printouts to our other office printer. I would like to install a utility that would do this on every computer in our office. The principle is sort of similar to how you show presence in instant messaging, I guess; it would need to sense there has been no keyboard/mouse activity for X number of minutes and send the appropriate notification to all connected computers on the network.
How difficult would it be to write a utility like this? Thanks!
I would like for there to be a way for everyone in their separate office, to be able to see whether she is at her desk or not, as she can't very well print checks otherwise.
. Would like to have a little icon in the notification tray that turns green when she's gone, red when she's there. When she's there she will have reserved use of the printer, and I'll have everyone send their printouts to our other office printer. I would like to install a utility that would do this on every computer in our office. The principle is sort of similar to how you show presence in instant messaging, I guess; it would need to sense there has been no keyboard/mouse activity for X number of minutes and send the appropriate notification to all connected computers on the network.How difficult would it be to write a utility like this? Thanks!