For my sins I am on the Parent Councel at my daughters school (primary school, 5-12 year olds - 800 of the little blighters). At last nights monthly meeting the head teacher was having a winge about how much paper/ink the kids consume. Some teachers seem to be far more liberal in controlling (or not as the case seems to be) what the kids print than others and he was asking if anyone knew of a way to monitor who is printing what and how much .... so all eyes in the room turned to me. Now I have to admit, that whilst I am a computer geek, print servers and queues are not something I've ever worked on.
What they are looking for is a piece of software which will monitor the print queue's and issue reports showing who is printing what.
As far as I know all the kids have unique logins but the logins they use are the same irrespective of the class they are in at the time and they can use any of the computers in the school.
Is there a way that a teachers id can be tagged onto the kids print job so that a report can be generated by teacher rather than by child? Head teachers thinking is that if he publishes how much paper is being consumed on each teachers shift then they might be a bit more careful about what they are letting the kids print and this will help to keep the costs down for paper and for ink.
The head has already approached the local authority but they told him if he wants to do that then it's up to him, it won't be supplied or supported by them.
Any input gratefully received![]()


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