We have had ongoing problems with both pupils and staff sending multiple copies to our networked printers. Our children have special needs, and many of the ASD students love to print hundreds of pictures of whatever the subject of the latest obsessions (Ford Focus cars, Korean cartoon characters, cricket scores and Dyson vacuum cleaners jump to mind – you know who you are ). The staff seem to have some peculiar notion that if they hit the print button a few dozen times their printing has “a better chance of getting through”. Printing costs have been getting out of hand.
I have managed to thwart them with the aid of the excellent Printer Manager from Pallista. The software prevents users from sending the same thing to print more than once in quick succession, and also allows me to set users print quotas – features that are lacking on Windows Server 2003.
Many thanks to James@Pallista – who after reading my blog offered us a discount to help support the work that we do. Many thanks James – we think your software is good!
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