[cups.general] block print jobs from specific file types

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Fri Mar 6 08:42:54 PST 2009


For just jobs printed from web browsers? Probably not - Pykota or  
Tea4CUPS might provide the hooks for post-filtering the print jobs,  
but it will be tricky. A better option would be to use those tools to  
offer per-user page limits of all print jobs.


On Mar 5, 2009, at 11:05 PM, Gareth Clark wrote:
> O ok. I see. Is there any way of blocking/stopping these? If not is  
> there a way to add authorisation to the printing. Eg. someone has to  
> put in a password before the printer will print a job?
>
>> Gareth Clark wrote:
>>> I am wondering if it is possible at all to block prints from  
>>> certain file types.
>>>
>>> For example HTML. I am working with a school and the students have  
>>> a habit of printing whole pages from wikipedia.
>>
>> CUPS won't see HTML, it will see PS or PDF from the web browser.
>>
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>> Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System  
>> Engineer
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