Re: Printing and silly students

[Colin Ingram <cjingram@wisc.edu>]

I'm not being very helpful right but in many public locations 
(libraries, university, etc) you have to release your print job from a 
separate machine (usually after paying them with a print card you 
purchased)  At my old university the system even limited you to 20 pages 
per print job. (since this was the amount of printing you could do for 
free)  This systems were usually set up on macs or Linux.  I don't know 
any details though, just that it is possible.


Jonathan Lassoff wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 22:42:38 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> > CUPS probably has some accounting functionality.  Googling for
> > CUPS accounting' brought up some interesting pages.
> >    
> Sort of. If at all possible (which it doesn't look like right now),
> I'd like to avoid putting together an entirely new server running
> Windows just to authenticate against.
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> > Does this help? http://www.wlug.org.nz/CupsAccounting
> >    
> This brings up a tool called pyKota. I'm still a bit unsure as to how
> to get this to show which user is printing. I seem to remember that
> the CUPS web interface had a way to start and stop jobs. Does anyone
> know if I could have the user send their job, then go to the web
> interface and login to approve/start their job?
>
> Cheers,
> Jonathan Lassoff
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