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We had this problem when I was still at high school. It worked for the most part, but when us photography students started printing to the photo printer all hel
by hrrsn 14y ago
We had this problem when I was still at high school. It worked for the most part, but when us photography students started printing to the photo printer all hell broke loose. Things would frequently take 30+ minutes to go through the Pharos print server. At the time they had just hired a new IT guy so we asked him if he could set the printer up on our personal laptops (we only had 3 workstations in the room). After much frustration he managed to get it running, except he accidentally set them up to print directly to the printer, not via the print server. Magically things started popping out after a minute or two, which got the teacher inquisitive. Eventually they realised that we weren't being charged for printing anymore when the print information had our personal computer usernames rather than ID numbers but couldn't blame us as they had set it up themselves. After being told not to do that anymore, we all just set up secondary users with our ID numbers so it all looked legit.
- ZoFreX 14y agoAh, yes - I forgot to mention that side effect, bypassing the print queue will also mean you don't get charged (assuming your institution has a print credits system set up).