Bypass Papercut Print at School.

TubbyGreg

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So, at the beginning of the year, we were each given £15 of printing credits, a week in it was reset to £2. We were then told that it would be reset to £2 at the beginning of each half term. Five half terms later and none such reset has been seen. Printing used to be free, and now they've installed Papercut on the school network to limit it. I understand why completely, but I am left with £0.02 of printing credit left after having to print a large presentation on silicon for my Physics coursework. Should I have to do anymore printing, I will have to pay real money, in exchange for fake money. Have my school made education pay to win?
Anyway, is there anyway to get around Papercut and print without it charging me? I'd really like to know.
I do understand the monetary and environmental factors that have pushed the school to do this, but if they won't accept homework in an email, and request for it to be printed, then they need to allow us to print it. /rant
 
Go and speak to your on-site IT person, we're all human, maybe they'll offer a solution, or let you print your work out there and then... :)

Alternatively ask a teacher to print it out for you and explain your situation, or even a classmate if they have lots of print credit.

There is probably a way to bypass it, but I don't particularly want to cause your school untold misery because a 'workaround' gets found out by the every pupil, and then everyone prints out excel spreadsheets with a rude sentence in cell 999,999XFD which causes the printer to spool paper endlessly, or lock up...

I remember what its like at school... ;)
 
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TubbyGreg said:
Anyway, is there anyway to get around Papercut and print without it charging me? I'd really like to know.
I do understand the monetary and environmental factors that have pushed the school to do this, but if they won't accept homework in an email, and request for it to be printed, then they need to allow us to print it. /rant
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I have just sent an email to your school IT administrator with a link to this thread...

P.S.. I know how to get around it but I'm not telling you. :)
 
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Go and speak to your on-site IT person, we're all human, maybe they'll let you print your work out there and then... :)

There is probably a way to bypass it, but I don't particularly want to cause your school untold misery because a 'workaround' gets found out by the entire school, and then everyone prints out excel spreadsheets with a rude sentence in cell 999999XFD... :p
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I will try next time I need to print something out, and you're definitely right about the second part.
 
have you tried see if the credit can go to negative numbers?
we have papercut and we can print for free
we all started at £0 and was never reset, but it is allowed to go to negative number, i currently have a balance of -£6.36.
also we found a hack
can you login with just the id number instead of an account?
we just guessed someone's and it just worked so might be worth the shot
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like this:
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Megahackerd said:
have you tried see if the credit can go to negative numbers?
we have papercut and we can print for free
we all started at £0 and was never reset, but it is allowed to go to negative number, i currently have a balance of -£6.36.
also we found a hack
can you login with just the id number instead of an account?
we just guessed someone's and it just worked so might be worth the shot
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like this:
23eYCud.png
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Depends on the settings. I've set Papercut to allow staff to go negative (merely a visual incentive) but I hard limit pupils per term. I'm quite happy to print the odd document over that, but I guess that's the advantage of being in a small school - you know individual kids and have an idea of their their past usage before they enter your room. If it's a school of 2,000 then you're quite likely to be told to have been more responsible and go away.

If genuine you need to make your voice heard. If you've used your credit fairly then others will have done so too, so get together and complain en masse. But you're not going to get anywhere if you've used several times more than anyone else, so be clever.

Obviously Papercut has a prices set by the admin, so it's not simply a case of "colour costs £0.12pp but B&W only costs £0.05pp. If a colour page in your school is only listed at a fraction of that then you must have printed off a heck of a lot already and you should have been more selective with what you printed.

But no, we're not going to tell you how to bypass the restrictions imposed by your school admins.
 
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TubbyGreg said:
Anyway, is there anyway to get around Papercut and print without it charging me? I'd really like to know.
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Of course there is. In fact there are many ways. My favourite one when I was at school was to simply log in as an admin, or simply ask the teacher to print it off, that always worked.
 
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One way would be to install the printer directly (rather than a queue) and it should bypass papercut, depending on how it's configured.

Or just ask the IT people nicely and avoid getting yourself in trouble over something insignificant.
 
You've done the right thing by speaking to the IT administrator.

Also don't be scared of spending a few £ on your education, it will be worth it if it's worth what it's printed on.
 
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