Restricting users printer options

[dekkar]

Hello All....


I have never really used policies before, but I think I may have a
reason to use them now...


One of my clients just brought a colour laser printer.


BUT they want to beable to do the following:

Restrict the use of colour printing

Monitor the colour printing (to ensure users arent printing off too
many birthday invitations!!!!!!) ehehehhe


anyway.... I have installed 2 versions of the printer, one colour and
one B&W.

The problem is, any user can change the B&W printer to colour in the
printer settings.


Is there a way I can lock users out of changing printer settings for a
particular printer??

as I guess it would be good for them to beable to edit settings such
as landscape etc etc.... just not the colour/B&W setting.




Thanks in advance...

dekkar

 

[Guest]

You can use printer ACLs on security tab to control who can print or manage.

BR,
Denis

 

[Hank Arnold]

Plus the event logs for the computer with the printer will have events every
time a user prints to the printer.

 

[dekkar]

Hello Denis,

thanks for the reply..... One thing, does doing what you explained
restrict the users from changing the printer options (on their
desktop) from B&W to Colour??



Thanks,
Dekkar