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Thanks for the link; that's a fairly decent price on a printer. Our color printer is an HP and I like it a lot. I actually have a little black and white laser similar to that in storage, but the checks were all misaligned coming out of that  printer, so after fooling with it for a while, I gave up on that and am trying to use this Canon instead. Prints checks well, but there is the sharing issue which has been under discussion. :) So, I'd like to see if I can make a tray-feeder work; just seems easier to align the checks correctly.

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And it's working...it's working.. :-[ this is going to be really helpful, thanks a lot! I do have a couple of questions about it; I'd like to send you a private message if that's OK.

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Can't believe you cooked that up so quickly AND made a video! :Thmbsup: Thanks a bunch and will get back to you after I try it out!

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As to the server, we do currently have a computer on the LAN we can use for that notification utility. It's running Windows 7 right now although I may want to upgrade it to 10 before long.

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Thanks, Stoic Joker.  :) Totally agree that the  simple solution you suggested would be more  ideal. Did some experimenting with the printer; it prints great but configuration options are a bit lacking. If I send a job to the main paper tray, and a page is is in the manual feeder, it will print the first page of that job from the manual feeder, even if I've set the manual feeder size/type and the paper tray size/type to different sizes. It's such a good multi-function otherwise we hate to upgrade at this time. I suppose that's just the difference between the small office printer and the expensive printers you find in larger corporate settings.

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IainB, thanks for sharing your concerns; those are definitely valid points ,and in a larger, corporate environment I can well see where such security would be necessary. Ours however is a small family business, and we know each other extremely well; I should have mentioned that the girl that prints the checks is in fact my sister. :) I did actually talk to the rest of the guys, and they seem to be OK with the idea. But thanks again for the input!

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Sorry, are we talking about using a third computer as a server where the program is run, or using only two computers, the monitoring computers and the monitored one? Either way, it doesn't sound like it would be an issue to me, thanks.

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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!

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