Install Colour printer only for staff - but flexibly...

[soveryapt]

Hi there

 

I've just bought papercut for exactly that reason. It's quite inexpensive, but it allows you to deny colour printing based on groups (which can be pulled from an OU). You can also deny all sorts of other random things (not the right papersize - you know for when staff insist on trying to send a non-standard paper size through because they wanted to adjust margins but changed the papersize and you end up walking to the printer telling it to print the job to A4 ..)

 

Industry - Education - Print control software software for schools, colleges and Universities. - PaperCut - they do a free 40 day trial which is great for seeing if it does what you want ..

[browolf]

you know for when staff insist on trying to send a non-standard paper size through because they wanted to adjust margins but changed the papersize and you end up walking to the printer telling it to print the job to A4 ..)

 

usually it's letter/a4, u can make HP printers auto-override it.

[soveryapt]

usually it's letter/a4, u can make HP printers auto-override it.

 

Oh, I have the override (using Olivetti Kit) but the standard forms staff create to make like easier aren't anything like Letter or A4 sadly. I'm slowly educating them when they come and ask me why their new form won't print.

[Brpilot99]

I used a registry snapshot program to find out which registry key gets changed when you enable or disable colour in printer preferences .... I then ended up with 2 keys .. one black and one colour .. I then pushed the keys out using regedit /s and gpo's depending on the user/group or computer ... this works fine in XP and Ive not tried any other printers other than HP