We´ve got a system that gets used for most of our online projects that allows companies to sign up for a service and then automatically creates a pdf invoice to send them. This then gets downloaded by the office server and then printed out once an hour.
 
We were going through the last days invoices and noticed that there was a big gap in invoice numbers. I checked the database and found that a load hadn´t been printed. This was probably because the power had been off so the download server was running but the print server was still turned off so they were just disappearing into nowhere.
 
Luckily we have another networked printer that I can use and if the download server can´t directly contact it, it will keep it in its print queue until it comes back up again. Sorted. Just got to make sure we don´t run out of toner or nothing´ll get printed until we get more.

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