Epson Wireless Printing - Stopping Non-Approved Printing

[bigben2wardpitt]

Currently, we work in a co-working space where everyone is on the same wireless network. Our office though has a specific printer that only we use. It's an Epson Workforce 845. Unfortunately, it has no ability to password protect the printer or approve/deny printing, so I'm trying to find another way to approve print jobs and not.

Epson support said I could connect the printer to a computer then connect it to the network, but I didn't see how that was supposed to fix the problem of approving or denying print jobs.

This seems fixable, but I'm not too experienced in this wheelhouse.

Any thoughts or ideas?

 

[TerryMathews]

Currently, we work in a co-working space where everyone is on the same wireless network. Our office though has a specific printer that only we use. It's an Epson Workforce 845. Unfortunately, it has no ability to password protect the printer or approve/deny printing, so I'm trying to find another way to approve print jobs and not.

Epson support said I could connect the printer to a computer then connect it to the network, but I didn't see how that was supposed to fix the problem of approving or denying print jobs.

This seems fixable, but I'm not too experienced in this wheelhouse.

Any thoughts or ideas?

The only way to do this if the printer doesn't have any wireless access controls is to connect it to a PC and have that PC perform access control.

Ideally, connect it via wire and turn off its wireless.

 

[bigben2wardpitt]

Right. So then I share the printer from the printer properties on the PC. I looked into this, but how do I get that printer to show up for my 3 or 4 coworkers? It doesn't seem to show up on their local printers list...

 

[corkyg]

I looked into this, but how do I get that printer to show up for my 3 or 4 coworkers? It doesn't seem to show up on their local printers list...

You don't. It is no longer a network printer. When they need something printed they send it to you. You print it for them. You are then the print czar.

I work in a 9 station classroom, and to avoid spurious printing, we turn the printers OFF. We only turn them on when we want the work stations to print something.

 

[TerryMathews]

Right. So then I share the printer from the printer properties on the PC. I looked into this, but how do I get that printer to show up for my 3 or 4 coworkers? It doesn't seem to show up on their local printers list...

Turn on file and printer sharing in the Network control panel.