Re: Slightly off-topic but related -- Printing

CUPS provides quotas: https://www.cups.org/doc/accounting.html

Matthew Walters
IT Manager, People Places
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On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 1:26 PM Joseph Bishay <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I hope you are all doing very well today.
>
> I thought members of the mailing list may have come across this issue
> in their schools or offices and could give some recommendations.
>
> In our school we have a multifunction printer-copier hooked up to our
> LTSP network where the users are able to print, scan, etc.  The
> machine works very well and we have no problems using it with the
> thin/thick clients, except for one -- quotas.
>
> In order to photocopy or scan, the teachers need to log into the
> machine with their personal code.  They have a quota on the number of
> photocopies they can make and the machine successfully enforces the
> copy limit.
>
> However someone creative came up with a way to bypass the copy quota -
> scan into PDF and email to yourself the document you want to
> photocopy, and then just print out as many as you need!
>
> Has anyone come across a way to limit printing?
>
> Thank you very much,
> Joseph
>
>
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