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I look after my churches computer and I’m looking to replace our aging black & white laser printer with a colour one. However we have more than one user on the PC and with the cost of printer ink I’d like t be able to limit access to particular users. Can anyone suggest a way I might achieve this.

TIA

Peter

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It depends! 🙂

Is the printer stand alone or on a network?
How many computers access the printer?
As much info as you have please.

cheers, Paul

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It’s one standalone PC with printer connected via USB currently on Windows 7

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About all you can do is unplug it and hide the cable.

cheers, Paul

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I am not sure I understand your precise configuration and how the users work, but does this help ?

http://www.pcworld.com/article/212461/how_to_password_protect_a_printer.html

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Martin
Many thanks, all built in when you know where to look.

Peter

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Martin
Many thanks, all built in when you know where to look.

Peter

Peter: Are you saying that Windows has built-in functionality which allows you to require a password in order to print? If so, please explain what you have found.

Thanks.

Jim

Group "L" (Linux Mint)
with Windows 10 running in a remote session on my file server

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No. It appears to allow you to limit access to specified accounts and if they are password protected at login you can control which account can use the printer which was what I wanted. See link in Martins post.

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