Re: [WinMac] Re: Experiences with Print Manager Plus?

Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Wed, 18 Aug 1999 17:23:46 -0500

Tim Scoff wrote:
>
> Another point to remember when you're investigating Print Quota
> software for NT is it's very easy to bypass NT's print queues.

True, but not with our user base :-/

> Print Quotas don't work unless you can make it impossible to print to
> the printer except by going through the server's print queue.

We're not quota-ing people...people can print as much as they want, they
just have to pay for it, just like they do for copying right now.

Well, for one thing, we're not trying to block all printing to the
printers, just count the _majority_ of the the usage. My boss just
doesn't want to charge a department doing 10% of the printing 25% of the
costs, or vice versa.

  Our users don't have any problem with punching in account numbers to
use the things as copiers, so there'll not be much resistance to doing
that for printing as well. If we install the software and set everyone
up, they'll take the path of least resistance and use our system.

For another we're on friendly terms with everyone here, so it's not like
they're going to be running around trying to figure out how to get
around any quotas. Many of our faculty are cheap, but they're not _that_
cheap!

Also, they pay for it one way or another...if they're not paying for it
in up front costs, it comes from their overhead. Paying for it up front
gives them an illusion of controlling their money ;-)

Finally, I haven't much choice in whether or not we implement something
like this. This is ordered from On High. ;-)

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group


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