[Koha-bugs] [Bug 8352] Add automatic printing of 'hold to pull' notices

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8352

--- Comment #18 from Galen Charlton <gmcharlt at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Kyle M Hall from comment #16)
> (In reply to Galen Charlton from comment #14)
> > +1 to taking advantage of the existing structure for defining print queues.
> 
> I'm afraid I don't believe this to be as good an idea as it may have seemed
> at first. It appears that admin/printers.pl has been hidden since 2008, 8
> years ago. The schema for this table would need to be completely recreated
> as the existing one does not fit with the data needed for Net::Printer. Even
> worse, the code itself is extremely broken and would have to be rewritten
> from scratch.

I've sent Chris a query regarding whether he's got the current print queue
stuff working for any of his libraries.

> So, in short, we wouldn't be taking advantage of the existing structure for
> defining print queues, because it would all need to be completely thrown
> away and totally rewritten, including the printers table itself.

Agreed there are some changes that would be required.

> I'm not really seeing what the advantage would be to defining the printers
> from the web interface either. In fact, it seems even a bit unwanted
> perhaps. Printer configuration is a system administration task. I don't see
> a great advantage to allowing librarians to alter the printer data from a
> web interface.

Disagree.  Particularly since Net::Printer talks to the printer directly, there
isn't any server-side configuration of setting up lpr queues as seems to be
required for the current printer queue approach.

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