Topic: Email to printer???

[SloopJohnB]

Does anyone know how to email a document to a network printer and have it print?

Why you ask?

XYZ company wants to email work-orders directly to an existing network printer (LEXMARK sc1275) which is located at a remote location. Rather than fax the work-orders, the email-to-print idea came up so as to manage the work-orders from the main office (the sender).

Since the remote location only has 2 PC's (and the SME server) on their network, and the printer is centrally located, this might make it easier for dispatching purposes.


Any ideas??

SloopJohnB

[Paul]

Xerox has a utility to do just what you ask but only works on Xerox printers.  My Phaser 8200 has an email server built in and will accept emailed documents directly to it.

I thought Lexmark might have something similar if your model supported it but after reading the Lexmark website, I don't think it will.

So, we must find another way.  Give us a little more detail such as SME version, is it your file, web, mail server or just a gateway?  Is the printer hooked up to the SME server or one of the clients? Dial-up, cable, dsl? etc.

Give as much detail on both ends (main office and remote office).  With the correct setup, it might be easier to just use a VPN.  Let's see what you have.

Good Luck,

Paul