Deploy Printer To Only Certian Computers But All Users

[ddg5006]

Hello again,

 

I'm trying to deploy a printer but only have certian computers be able to print to it, I already have it deployed so that all users "Student" can print to this printer, that is fine. But what i want to do is also make it so that certian rooms can only print to it. This is as far as I have gotten setup wise, I have a group that I created for the computers in my lab that I want to be able to print, its called "Lab computers" all the computers in my lab belong to that group. Now I want to make it that only these computers can print to the printers, but to allow other users to print as well like "teachers' but restrict the "students" not logged into a computer under the "lab computers" group to print. If anyone could guide me to the correct settings to be able to do this it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks !

 

Also i was wondering if anyone knew a way to create a password for having to print to a printer because we have a really nice color printer that the administration wants people all over the building to use but sometimes people leave accounts open and then students go print happy with the color printer and the toners are very expensive.

 

Another thing i was wondering about is if there was some kind of way to track who is printing what and what computer it came from, maybe even institute like a print quota of some sort, like you have "X" amount of pages you can print for the month because paper supply is really an issue here and to get things photocopied you need to submit a request with a lesson plan a few days ahead of schedule and to circumvent this process teachers sometime come to the lab and print out like 100's of pages and there is nothing that i can really do about it caus im not there all the time. And not only does it use up the allotted paper for my lab but it also spends my toner, and as everyone knows toner is not cheap. Any info on this would be great, even if it's not a feature that I can activate through windows server maybe there is some kind of 3rd party software that I can impliment. Thanks again.

[ICTCity]

Hi, not really good news for you...

 

I'm trying to deploy a printer but only have certian computers be able to print to it, I already have it deployed so that all users "Student" can print to this printer, that is fine. But what i want to do is also make it so that certian rooms can only print to it. This is as far as I have gotten setup wise, I have a group that I created for the computers in my lab that I want to be able to print, its called "Lab computers" all the computers in my lab belong to that group. Now I want to make it that only these computers can print to the printers, but to allow other users to print as well like "teachers' but restrict the "students" not logged into a computer under the "lab computers" group to print. If anyone could guide me to the correct settings to be able to do this it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks !

 

You can't. You can block a computer / user from printing, but you cannot match user and computer. If you are familiar with MySql, it has this feature: user@pc1 > permit user@pc2 > deny. But this is MySql, windows cannot do this.

 

Also i was wondering if anyone knew a way to create a password for having to print to a printer because we have a really nice color printer that the administration wants people all over the building to use but sometimes people leave accounts open and then students go print happy with the color printer and the toners are very expensive.

 

This depends on the printer / drivers, again, windows cannot manage this, it just provide the spooler.

 

Another thing i was wondering about is if there was some kind of way to track who is printing what and what computer it came from, maybe even institute like a print quota of some sort, like you have "X" amount of pages you can print for the month because paper supply is really an issue here and to get things photocopied you need to submit a request with a lesson plan a few days ahead of schedule and to circumvent this process teachers sometime come to the lab and print out like 100's of pages and there is nothing that i can really do about it caus im not there all the time. And not only does it use up the allotted paper for my lab but it also spends my toner, and as everyone knows toner is not cheap. Any info on this would be great, even if it's not a feature that I can activate through windows server maybe there is some kind of 3rd party software that I can impliment. Thanks again.

 

Once again, windows cannot track this. There are printers with a built in report (usually are very expensive printer).

 

 

So, you can buy one printer like this one:

http://kmbs.konicaminolta.us/content/products/models/bizhubC550.html?info=Features

 

It has what you need. You can connect it to your AD and from there assign computer and user which will be able to print. It also provide a password to print and a limit. As said, it is VERY expensive!

 

If you want a 3rd part software, you can check this:

http://www.papercut.com/

or this:

http://www.czsolution.com/

 

The first one works fine, I never used it but I saw it running and it was really impressive.

The last one was implemented in my school, but I really don't know how does it work.

 

I hope this help.

[ddg5006]

thanks ill check it out and post back in a few days

[ddg5006]

Still not sure what i'm going to impliment but thanks for the info, i'm greatful for your help. thanks again.

[ICTCity]

You're welcome!