You can configure Cups to restrict printing, either to
prevent duplicate print jobs or set a maximum file
size. You can also set print quotas. Its setup is in
the config file. There is also a Webmin module for
CUPS but we have not used it yet.
Good luck
Colin Davies
Meadows Community School
Chesterfield
--- "Garfoot,J"
Hello,
We've got a room of 30 Windows NT4 PCs printing to a SuSE 7.3 PC(P4 1.6GHz,128MB RAM) via SAMBA. We are using CUPS as the Linux printing system. The printer we use is a LaserJet6L with 2MB memory. The 6L's drivers are copied from the SAMBA server when the printer is installed on the client. The raw data is then sent to the printer.
Anyway, this all works fine. Problems occur when the queue becomes overloaded. Work doesn't come out straight away so they send it again..so on and so on. Obviously part of this is a user management issue, explaining that printing is not instant when X people are trying to print at once.
Does anyone have experience of a system that can restrain their desire to hit the print button whenever they get bored? I have looked at some Windows based print quota software but have been unable to locate much for those with Linux printers.
Any ideas? Thank you
Joe Garfoot
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