Hello All, I have a requirement to generate outputs to a number of printers and for them to be held and users then to maybe move them between those printers and release when ready. Please advise on possible solutions.
Probably not really a Content Server question, unless you want to write your own application tied to a timer to download files from CS upon request and then send them to appropriate printers. I once wrote a CWS application to grab various PDFs and bind them together for a single print job with some sort of template pages inserted.
I think most professional-grade printers have some sort of hold functionality built into them. In another life, in IT, I recall creating templates for Xerox or Canon stations that would accept documents that were sent over via CRON job to a specific user's "box", which required they walk over to said machine and then accept the print job under their own account. Depending on the printers you have, it's either a manual setup for each user account, or it's synced from AD, or similar.
It's probably best you talk to your printer vendor, and if you need anything more complex than a straight-up print from Content Server, pick up the SDK docs and have a look.
We do have a product that might do what you're looking for called "Vista Plus Output Manager" ( https://knowledge.opentext.com/go/66020752 ), but it's completely unrelated to Content Server. It does allow you to queue / hold / redirect print jobs.
