Restricting use of a colour printer toblack-and-white

John A. Murdie john at cs.york.ac.uk
Thu May 14 02:08:18 PDT 2009


>
> There may also be other ways to alter the PPD to make it black and
> white only. I am not a post script master but I have seen some of
> these people at work.
>
> Having two queues available to the clients is a good idea. It is very
> simple protection.
>
> If the users have administration control over their machines or are
> able to add print queues and you require greater security then
> PrintAgent : http://www.lucidsystems.org/pringingworks/printagent is
> able to authenticate specific users to a CUPS queue. PrintAgent is
> also able to interface with various directory systems for password
> credentials so that people will be granted or denied access based upon
> group membership for instance.
>
> This kind of approach allows both queues to be installed on a single
> machine but will only allow someone who is allowed to print to print
> to the color queue.
>
> Finally if the clients are *NIX based then, PrinterSetup is able to
> dynamically alter the queues based upon the user who is logging onto
> the system. So if a user is a certain group then they will have both
> color and black and white queues available in the print dialog box.
> Details on PrinterSetup is available from : http://www.lucidsystems.org/printingworks/printagent/
>
> I hope this helps.

Thank you, Henri. PrintAgent is new to me and sounds to be worth investigating - even for uses other than the specific one I asked about.

John A. Murdie




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