HI,

  The security tab in the printer’s properties can deny {uncheck “allow”} printing to everyone, but grant it to certain logons/groups.

  You would have to set it on each workstation.

We are moving to a standard networked laser printer as much as possible…

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From: School Information Technology Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Carolin
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 11:11 AM
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Subject: Printing Quota Management w/ WinXP

Greetings All,

We've taken a look at our printing costs over the past year and were a bit shocked at the amount of $ color printing has cost us.  While it's certainly been a boon to our users, it's forced us to look at implementing some cost containment measures.

One item we've discussed is printing quotas for users.  I've looked at this in the past, but was unable to find a solution that got around XP's insistence on installing a printer the first time a user wanted to print to it.  With the amount of jumping around our students do on computers, this "feature" is problematic.  Our current workaround has been to setup IP ports on machines and thus print to a device XP sees as installed locally.  Unfortunately, I don't see a way to incorporate this method into a quota solution.

I'm hoping some of you have found a product or solution that will allow us to control how much a user can print, and still not burden them with the printer install situation I mention.  Any success stories out there???

Thanks!

John

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  John Carolin
  Network Administrator
  Stowe School District
  413 Barrows Rd.
  Stowe,  Vermont  05672
  (802) 253-7218
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