Limit number of print copies

[Guest]

Does anyone know how to limit the number of print copies? I have some
students that found the print button.

 

[Vanguard]

Does anyone know how to limit the number of print copies? I have some
students that found the print button.

If it is a network printer, its log should show which domain user sent print
traffic to it. So require the students to login and then charge them per
sheet over some maximum count. Not paying for the printouts is the same as
if they don't pay any other school fee and with the same repercussions.

If they are underaged students (and you cannot make their parents
responsible) then delete all printers from all hosts to which the students
have access and force them to use one host under your physical control from
which they can print, or setup the network printer to queue but not
immediately print all requests and have the students make requests to get a
hardcopy of their item in the print queue.

You could set the "Print Spooler" service to Disabled so even if the
students loaded a printer driver then Windows still won't print. Since NT
services can only be altered by an admin-level user, the students under
their restricted accounts cannot enable and start the Print Spooler service.
I'm not sure if a printer configured to print directly to the printer would
bypass the print spooler service but that is something you could test.
However, since the students are using restricted accounts, they couldn't
even install a printer driver, so deleting the printers would eliminate them
doing any printing.

Making them pay (over a max threshold) is probably the best way to train
them to stop wasting resources.

 

[Guest]

take away the Everyone print permissions on the printer security and give
only the "teacher" group permissions to print.

On the printer there MIGHT be a setting to limit the number of printed
pages...not sure though.

Other than the log option...that's ASSUming everyone has a unique login.