Limit pages for printing

[GabeShack]

Hi all,
Currently wondering if anyone has a good solution that would limit the number of pages allowed to be sent to a printer. We currently see students in the library printing large font copies of War and Peace and are looking for a way to maybe set a max print job at like 15 pages double sided. Ideas?

Gabe Shackney
Instructional Technology Specialist
Princeton Public Schools

[mikeh]

Hi,

Our University's print server administrators have used PaperCut (www.papercut.com) at least once to limit the size of print jobs to a maximum of n pages. I'm not entirely sure if the print-job limitation is still in place, as it's been a couple years since I was involved with the department that made the request.

I have a vague recollection that the CUPS printing daemon in Mac OS X could also limit the size of a print job, but it was a hassle to set up. Like I said, it's been a few years...

Mike Hendrickson
IT Support Consultant, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
The University of Iowa

[mm2270]

Even though I've never actually used it, I was going to recommend PaperCut as well as a possible solution. I researched it in a past position and it seems like a great solution for managing print costs and expendables.

[tobiaslinder]

We have PaperCut in use and it is a very good tool. It integrates nicely with directory services like OpenDirectory and also acts as a print server for iOS devices.

The users can access their account over web interface and the pupils can even exchange their quotas.