I was the Unix admin on an academic campus for a while, and I wrote a script with this function to add print job users, names, doc type, pages, number of pending jobs, etc to our Unix (and by use, VMS) print queues. I shared this tool around the office so that the other platforms would also be able to implement this function.

The script was nice. We had networked serial / parallel port boxes, and could wrap the print job in console commands to change the display to the information for the incoming print job. It also allowed us to send banners to the print console for things like lab hours, etc.

I am a Green Bay Packer (American football team, for those that do not know) fan, and the Novell guy was a Chicago Bears fan. Around the time of the twice annual installment of the Packer / Bear rivalry, the printer consoles on campus would start cheering for the various teams.