[cups.general] Page Limit

[Michael Sweet]

If you are printing *from* the Windows machines, chances are the data is coming across as raw printer data and so we can't do any kind of accounting with it...

On Aug 6, 2010, at 8:33 AM, Locke wrote:

> I just finished setting up two HP P3005 printers using CUPS on a server running Fedora 13, and am able to print to them from Vista machines.
> 
> However I want to limit the number of pages users can print at a single time.
> 
> I entered in
> 
> lpadmin -p printername* -o job-quota-period=30 -o job-page-limit=5
> 
> setting the PageLimit to 5, and the QuotaPeriod to 30 in /etc/cups/printers.conf
> 
> so my belief was that a user would only be able to print 5 pages every 30 seconds.  However, the users can still print as many pages as they want in a single job.
> 
> Is there something I'm doing wrong or missing?  Please excuse my ignorance, I've only been using Linux for about a week, and just started using CUPS today.
> 
> *yes I put in my actual printer's name, not the generic printername
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair