ninjabeaver Posted June 13, 2005 Posted June 13, 2005 OK guys, Heres another one to brain storm. 1:. Is there a method around so that when a student prints out anything that their username is printed at the bottom or top of everypage? 2:. What software or method does everyone use to control the amount of printing around their school site? Question 1 is something the staff here have all ways wanted implemented but no-one seems to be able to offer the solution.
Geoff Posted June 13, 2005 Posted June 13, 2005 Number 1 is easy. Go to the printer(s) in question and look in the properties. On the Advanced tab there's an option for a 'seperator page'. You need to create a text file with some special control codes and point that setting at the text file. Here's an example, explaining along the way: $ ---- this can be any character, and must be the first character on the first line. Choose a character not normally used to be the control character, in this case $ $LUser Name $N ---- $L is used to display normal test until another code is found, $N displayed the username $L, Job Number $I ---- $I displays the job number $E ---- $E means end of page Other characters you can use are $B$S ---- Turn on block character printing $D ---- Data job printer $F ---- A file to print $H ---- Printer specific control code $x ---- Where x is a number of blank lines to print $T ---- Time job was printed $U ---- Turns off block character printing $Wxx ---- Width of the separator page
Ric_ Posted June 13, 2005 Posted June 13, 2005 @Geoff Doesn't that just print a page between the jobs (i.e. there will be an A4 sheet with the username, etc. on and then the job will follow that)? This would be no good if some idiot decides to mix the pages up.
ninjabeaver Posted June 13, 2005 Author Posted June 13, 2005 Yeah, it does a seperator page. I'm actually after something that gets tagged onto the top or the bottom of the page like a header or footer, but just not for Word etc but everything like web pages, picture print outs etc.
Geoff Posted June 13, 2005 Posted June 13, 2005 If your print server is a Linux box (with samba and/or cups for example) you can do it by reprocessing the postscript file after it comes through ghostscript. However you cannot do it under windows without writing your own GDI printer drivers. I suspect this is beyond most mortals.
Alex Posted June 13, 2005 Posted June 13, 2005 We use 'Print Manager Plus' - reasonably effective at the job Alows you to assign each AD user a budget for printing etc etc.
ninjabeaver Posted June 14, 2005 Author Posted June 14, 2005 Forgot to say we use a piece of software called StopIt3 by Flo Software. Reasonably priced and we've had it implemented for the past two years. It monitors printers, pages printed, costs etc as well as monitorying individual users HDD space. It then locks the account if you use too much HDD space. Then the old 'I cant logon' bit starts.
ChrisH Posted June 14, 2005 Posted June 14, 2005 I found a code snippet a while ago that helps a little but only when they print straight from Internet Explorer. So it is of limited use but still good as this is a problem here. Yes I know some of you will use firefox etc etc ...... Dim WSHShell, RegKey, myName myName = createobject("wscript.network").username Set WSHShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") RegKey = "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\PageSetup\" WSHShell.RegWrite regkey & "header", "Printed By " &myName This just alters a reg key and adds a header to any document printed from IE. In the example above it writes "Printed By username". You can make this print in the footer as well.
RobC Posted June 14, 2005 Posted June 14, 2005 ChrisH... I'm assuming that code snippet is run as a logon script? Rob.
ChrisH Posted June 15, 2005 Posted June 15, 2005 ChrisH... I'm assuming that code snippet is run as a logon script? Rob. Yes run it as part of your log in script
MkII Posted June 15, 2005 Posted June 15, 2005 I've used Print Manager Plus. Very good. No one here is really THAT bothered to charge departments tho'. Although we do keep a tally of colour printing and charge that on. Also in Word you can enforce a footer via .ADM to have the username printed. Did that for a while. Now all we do is "keep printed documents" on selected printers, that way we can see which user printed.
ChrisH Posted June 16, 2005 Posted June 16, 2005 Hmm I cant find the footer option for word 2000 in the ADMs.
ChrisH Posted June 16, 2005 Posted June 16, 2005 Well that rules that out as most of our licences only cover 2000
tarquel Posted June 16, 2005 Posted June 16, 2005 Also in Word you can enforce a footer via .ADM to have the username printed. Did that for a while. Hmm I cant find the footer option for word 2000 in the ADMs You need 2003 IIRC mark has a 2000 server/domain setup so it should be available to 2000 - maybe mark can answer tjis one lol Regards, N.
MkII Posted June 16, 2005 Posted June 16, 2005 Can't find the .adm reference either! *blushes*! - May have been in Print Manager Plus - I did use an evaluation version we had which never expires [handy - hmmmm! ] - but I took pity on my concience an uninstalled it - dunno the price of that now - I never used it for charging as I said - but did use it to limit job runs, copies per week & blocking printing for kids abusing the pinters. [oh - and maybe printing footers!! ]
Mango_RW Posted June 21, 2005 Posted June 21, 2005 We use PCounter for our printing management. Everyone has 'credit' (free of course) 2p per b/w copy and 10p per colour copy. Although we don't charge it helps keep costs down as when they run out they have to come see us, then we open the log file for that user and can find out if they are using the service correctly.
tarquel Posted June 30, 2005 Posted June 30, 2005 Is PCounter free? Got any info on it - links etc? I like PMP (Print Manager Plus) that we use but I'm wondering if theres a freeware/open source solution? Cheers Nath
ConTheITGuy Posted June 30, 2005 Posted June 30, 2005 PCounter is unfortunately NOT free! I am looking at it myself. Had a quote of about £550 per server (which is one here!). I too would be interested to hear about any free (or very cheap) alternative though I fear it probably doesn't exist. Andy.
Ric_ Posted June 30, 2005 Posted June 30, 2005 I just bought Printmanger Plus Academic - £399 for a site license. Looks significantly cheaper than PCounter and Chris (Dos_Box) swears by it.
ChrisH Posted June 30, 2005 Posted June 30, 2005 I have just finished a 60 day trial of Pcounter and it did add a lot of nice features but I cant help but think it was missing a lot for the price. I will have to have a look at print manager plus
Ric_ Posted June 30, 2005 Posted June 30, 2005 I have just finished a 60 day trial of Pcounter and it did add a lot of nice features but I cant help but think it was missing a lot for the price. I will have to have a look at print manager plus It has those 'bubbly-people' icons!
Geoff Posted June 30, 2005 Posted June 30, 2005 Also consider PaperCut. Worked wonderfully for me once I got the updates so it supported my laser printers (Epsons). Oh and the price is great.
tosca925 Posted August 21, 2005 Posted August 21, 2005 Is there a setting in office 2003 .adm that can be set which will make the users name print on the base of all office 2003 documents?
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