Allow or Deny Print requests from another computer

01/18/2008 09:45:56 PM · #1

Does anyone know how I can do this? Or what I need?

Hereâ��s my situation... My kids love to get on the computer and do stuff but when they print something they print the same thing like 500 times, OR, they want to print everything. Well after about a ream of paper I thought well let me just remove the printer from the machine and boom they can't print. Well that didn't work either because they do have to print some things I mean after all they have a computer... Who has a computer and no printer right?

So what I am looking for is a way to view or see the actual document or the filename when they hit the print button and give me a pop up saying something like "Do you allow this print, yes or no"???

Can anyone help me?

For those of you that have kids on computers, how do you watch them?

BTW Ages 5-15 anything older than that they ought to know how to print something.

Dr.Confuser

Nikon D800

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR

01/18/2008 09:51:43 PM · #2

Just a wild hair idea ... have you considered discussing this with that wild tribe of kids?

RainMotorsports

Nikon D60

01/18/2008 09:53:11 PM · #3

13-18 year olds still have the same problem. When i was in high school had to run to the server room to cancel print jobs because some moron sent the worlds largest essay to the printer 5 times. I dunno how todo anything like that without software that designed to take complete control like the library uses.

But you can click on the printer icon on the lower right and cancel print jobs at any time. It works well for ones waiting to be printed but not so well for ones already printing.

01/19/2008 09:20:25 AM · #4

Originally posted by Dr.Confuser:

Just a wild hair idea ... have you considered discussing this with that wild tribe of kids?

Well I have told them that they can't print off everything and most of the time they can only print off 1 thing or whatever the case may be.

I just want to SEE what it is they are printing.

BTW they are 5 and 7 years old.

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

01/19/2008 09:24:53 AM · #5

Originally posted by RainMotorsports:

Hey Jeff glad to see you're back. I haven't seen you on in a while. As far as canceling a print job, well that would mean that I have to go down a flight of stairs, out the shed in the back yard, into the house which is about 80 feet away and into the kids room where the computer is. Might I also add that the printer is also in the house and I can't see what they are printing. So before I walk in and see all the paper on the floor I want to control it. And yes I am looking for that library type system. Thanks guys

Kelli

Canon EOS-D60

01/19/2008 09:54:59 AM · #6

Originally posted by Dirt_Diver:

Originally posted by Dr.Confuser:
Just a wild hair idea ... have you considered discussing this with that wild tribe of kids?

Well I have told them that they can't print off everything and most of the time they can only print off 1 thing or whatever the case may be.

I just want to SEE what it is they are printing.

BTW they are 5 and 7 years old.

This is what I had to do... I turn the printer off! Leave it connected. When they hit the print button, it will tell them it's off at which point they come ask you if they can print it. You can either turn the printer on or cancel the print job at this point. My son went through about 3 cartridges of ink before I thought of this. He's 8 and we've been doing it this way for about 3 years.

fuzzyt

Nikon D90

Quantaray AF 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC for Nikon

01/19/2008 10:02:50 AM · #7

Had a similar problem with printing, so after using their allowance to buy nothing but paper and ink, they started to figure things out. Although, we do have one child willing to buy paper by the case. :(

Gordon

RIM BlackBerry Curve

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

01/19/2008 11:44:06 AM · #8

You might want to look at software similar to this, that'll let you do remote queue management.
You can preview the jobs that are heading to the printer and approve/ deny them along the way.

//www.freedownloadscenter.com/Utilities/Misc__Utilities/Remote_Queue_Manager_Professional.html

01/19/2008 06:20:02 PM · #9

Originally posted by fuzzyt:

HAHHAHA kids you gotta love em.

Kelli that is a good idea thank you.