Saving power of powerful printers
At home, my Samsung laser-printer uses 15W during standby. So, a few years back, in order to save power, I put it on a USB-controlled power-plug. Pretty soon I added a tiny script that would query cups if a print-job was queued and would switch the printer on and afterwards off again. It turned out to be a pretty effective power saving measure.
Our two very big and reliable printers at realraum were even more power hungry, so I wanted to to something similar for the space.
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