Dual Printer Management
Hello,
I would like to submit two feature suggestions for LumaBooth.
1. Dual Printer Management
At a recent corporate trade show event, I used two printers connected to the booth. Currently, print jobs are distributed alternately between both printers. It would be very helpful to have an additional mode where all prints are sent to Printer 1 first, and only when Printer 1 runs out of paper or becomes unavailable would printing automatically switch to Printer 2.
We also noticed that in the current alternating print mode, print jobs can sometimes be held back if one of the printers is turned off or runs out of paper. In this situation, it would be preferable if all pending and future print jobs were automatically redirected to the remaining operational printer so that printing can continue without interruption.
Thank you for continuously improving LumaBooth and for considering user feedback.
Kind regards,
Sandro
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Event Bliss
Oct 27
+1 for this. It feels like a fairly easy win, since LumaBooth already supports two printers with “Print to Both”. This would just be a different mode that fills Printer 1 first and only switches to Printer 2 when Printer 1 runs out or goes offline.
The big benefit for us is using up partly used rolls, especially at drop-off events.
For example, we take two printers to a drop-off event. Printer 1 has a roll with 160 prints left, and Printer 2 has a new 500-print roll. We can’t leave a booth unattended with only 160 prints, so right now we’d have to remove the partial roll and run the event on the full one.
With a primary/failover mode, the booth would print from Printer 1 until it runs out, then switch to Printer 2 automatically. If the event used 200 prints, we’d finish with Printer 1 empty and Printer 2 holding 460 prints. Without it, we’d finish with an unused 160-print partial roll and a 300-print roll.
Less wastage, fewer partial rolls sitting around, and better cost per print. It’s also peace of mind for unattended events, since a roll running out or a jam wouldn’t stop printing.
Thanks for considering it!