TECH: limiting printing

[David McQuin <dmcqui2@ISD77.K12.MN.US>]

Hi Friends:   Some issues just never seem to be completely resolved.
We're looking for solutions to the seemingly universal rampant and
wasteful network printing problem.  A lot of paper and toner gets wasted
at our school by both students and teachers printing out anything and
everything they find.  We are lucky and have two networked computer labs
off the media center and a couple dozen networked computers arranged in
pods around the MC.  All of them print to networked printers.  Sometimes
the paper really flies.  We have both Macintosh and Windows machines in
the building.  Is there any printer management software out there that
can limit printing or monitor the source of printing projects for either
the Mac or Windows?  Can the Network OS itself be used to limit or
monitor printing--we use Novell 5.0?  Are there any special printer
drivers that can limit or monitor printing?  I couldn't find any help in
the archives, although this question seems to be an oft recurring one.
It hasn't been asked for a while so I thought I'd see what if anything
is new.
--
Dave McQuin
Media Specialist
Mankato East Junior-Senior High School
2600 Hoffman Road
Mankato, MN 56001
507-387-5671 ext 271
dmcqui2@isd77.k12.mn.us

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