Worked on my printers yesterday

at my home i have about 5 printers that i use. one for each computer. And one copier i just got from a hospital that was upgrading everything. So after about a week i decided i wanted to hook this copier up tot he network and use it as a shared printer. After countless hours of digging on the interwebs i found the proper program for printing to this copier. Toshiba Viewer. So i took one of the old machines i got from the hospital, formatted it, put some more ram in it and installed xp on it. Hooked it up to the network and ran a parallel cable to the copier. But that wasn't enough. My place is pretty big so we have two routers here. Some of the computers downstairs are not in the same wourkgroup as the ones closer to the copier which made things a bit harder. This led me back to the Internets to do some more searching for a possible solution. First there was Printer anywhere, which seemed ok but the only thing is that it always prints a cover page with a big ad on it and was just a waste. SO my next stop was a blog that talked about how to do it with dropbox. At first i was pretty surprised to learn this but hey it seemed pretty solid. So i went ahead and set it up. After setting it up it worked like a charm. All i is a vb script that monitors a folder in your dropbox, and as soon as a new file is put in there it sends it to the copier. This was working great till i realized dropbox does not yet support emailing attachments. This again led me to the internet for help. Where i found sites like airdropper and sendtodropbox.com. But they would only work with their folders and i need something to upload to the printQueue folder in my dropbox. The i came across MailDrop. Its a application you download which monitors your gmail inbox for any files with the label you specify then download and uploads the attachment to the folder of your choice on dropbox. And overall this was the best solution.