[ShabbyDoo]

Where was this ten years ago when I needed it? I worked for a electronic medical records ISV, and we had requirements like: Print referral letters on regular paper, chart notes on paper with a special blue line on the edge, and prescriptions on a special printer. Our thick Java Swing client was at the mercy of an admin to configure each workstation correctly. Even then, we could not easily do things like print to an alternate printer when the primary one was not working.

I had envisioned some sort of document printing service which could receive a request from our back-end services to render and print, say, a RTF document using a specified set of print rules (paper requirements, micro-geographic preferences, etc.).