During College times most of us need our printing job to be done fast as it takes a lot of time standing in the queue.
When there is a semester project submission deadline, we have a long queue of people waiting in front of the printing shop to get their files printed...And due to such heavy pressure, it gets even harder for the shopkeeper to handle so many files in one Place.
So what we do is make this whole process online via our application so the load of printing gets distributed as people won't be just putting their printing jobs after college hours or holiday, they can do it anytime which even reduces the risk of cartridge getting failed due to heavy printing load.
Also if a student forgets to get their printout in the evening and as most of the printing shops get closed after 9 PM, via this application they can put their printing job anytime even at night and can collect their printouts in the morning from the shop.
The major challenge was to think of a database that could connect both with the user files and print status and to the nearest vendor. So we used our DMS knowledge and decided to go with the relational database Mysql and Decide PHP for the API part as it is faster and has many built-in functions that helped us very much for calculations and displaying the vendor locations and user print query to the vendor. We had planned to have an Admin Panel too to check and help the user to get served better by providing them the best resources and data to fulfill their jobs.
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