Network printing

[ATLien247]

I want to add a color laserjet printer to my network. However, I do not want everyone and their dog printing everything in color. How would I go about restricting certain users to printing in black and white only? And more importantly, how would I lock the restriciton down so that a resourceful user would not be able to circumvent it?

 

[Goosemaster]

do you have a workgroup or a domain?

 

[Goosemaster]

just set the default's to black and create a group policy for printer..one that allows management..and one that does not....this is using windows....

Linux is another bag of marbles...

 

[ATLien247]

Is there any way that just the color settings can be restricted, and not the whole print management? I still want the users to be able to choose paper size, output tray, and such...

 

[GigaCluster]

Goosemaster's suggestion (default = black; color = for special users) also works in Linux using the CUPS printing software. It lets you set a default, but you can specify either a list of users or a group (or a list of groups) that have access to the printer configuration.