@brandont I was asked to do this once, and dutifilly set it up. I was using Nagios at the time. It would tell me about offline units, toner levels, paper trays, etc.

As printers had issues I would call/email relevant people to get them addressed.

Or not addressed.

And, one by one we just slowly removed them all from our monitoring platform because when they were offline of down no one cared.

And, if they don't care, I don't care.

@brandont I hope to see a blog post with your learnings about managing printers at scale. :)

@brandont I can't even imagine. Just me and a handful of printers and a couple handfuls of users has me dreading the mention of printers. Hundreds? Couldn't pay me enough... 😱

@brandont :awesome:

It’s likely a lot harder now Pis are harder to get in bulk. HP office CUPS arm drivers/tools are better quality than amd64 these days.

Remote printing and scanning with a Pi Zero is pretty boss, and works for Windows boxes without client drivers these days too not just Linux.