Colour Printing Nightmare

[techie]

My office is situated between two IT rooms and I have a HP4600 which is allocated to all machines in the IT/Business Studies dept as a secondary printer.  Despite several notices, signs and introduction of print credits I have a steady stream of pupils in my office collecting printouts, or worse again leaving them scattered.



More frustrating than the above is pupils who aren't timetabled for a computer room who request to use my machine to print out their work!!!  Even if it is only a title/cover page in colour they will choose to print to my printer.  Pausing the printer between classes/banning its use altogether isn't really an option.



Any ideas/suggestions or people with the same problem???

[Gerard]

i have the exact problem., my room also between both it rooms and i have the colour printer in here. i got the doors covered in signs saying pupils do not enter etc and it still like talking to a wall.

[Bill Bixby]

Be thankful you have an office.  Why have it in your room at all?

[Gerard]

not much of an  office.... more of a fish bowl ( windows both sides into the ict rooms  )



as for the printer it supposedly to cut on on colour prints as a classroom assistant hands the printouts out to the pupils that way we can catch non- school related prints





but they ignore all the signs anyway  :roll:

[Beats]

I've just taken to removing the network lead from the colour laser to avoid non-schoolwork being printed. It's a bit of a hassle but most people who should be printing to it will be with a teacher anyway and they can ask me to connect it.



Then it's just a matter of deleting all the jobs in the queue that shouldn't be there.



I don't think there's a perfect way to deal with this except watching the colour printer constantly...

[Gerard]

the color printer in my room is a legacy so i can easily pause it -delete the jobs etc



but wouldnt even bother with the hassle of the c2k ones

[Si]

Yep, be thankful you have an office...



I really dont have a problem with the colour laser at my school, once we introduced printer credits and set the value of credits to 20 per sheet (which works out at around 1 page per week at the current rate for pupils) no-one uses the colour unless its needed for coursework.



The printer sits right behind me in the ICT suite, so I guess most pupils dont even try printing something they shouldnt unless I get up and take a look at what they are printing.

[casper]

Assign the printer to one machine in each room. That way you'll only get a maximum of 2 printing to it at any one time.