Chromebook CUPS Printing

[andyt57]

One of my primary schools has 60+ Chromebooks with a shared Kyocera TASKalfa 2551ci printer/copier and I have managed to get the new CUPS printing working through GSuite Admin.

 

The Windows 10 driver on the server running Microsoft Server 2012 is set so that each class has a PIN, and their job sits on the printer until they go and type in their class PIN. That way they think twice about printing and we can keep a track of usage. That worked fine with the old,not retired, laptops.

 

I have looked in all the GSuite documentation but can't find anything which would allow me to do the same on the Chromebooks.

 

Does anyone have any idea if/how it can be done?

 

Andy

[j224]

We've recently gone 'serverless' and looked into options for getting our Chromebooks to print and having a management system to track prints and set up Secure Print so each user has their own PIN to release the job.

 

We've found directprint.io does exactly that and the support is excellent too.

[paulkerton]

I'd go to directprint.io for this in the interim, but PIN support in CUPS printing is due to arrive by the end of the year.