Restricting Network Printing

[TriedandTested]

Does anything exist that would allow me to restrict users to printing in mono unless they enter a password? I work in a school, and as you can imagine all sorts of crap is being printed off..simply because they can! I'm new to this game and was hoping someone here could suggest a product for me to look in to?

I started less than two months ago, and oddly they have an OKI printer in the school ICT room...for those that don't know these are very expensive and very high maintance printers...and probably more suited to a printer company than for kids! The new printer i'm looking in to getting to replace this OKI (and to put the restrictions on) is the Epson Aculaser c2600n.

Thanks

 

[TriedandTested]

That's an idea, but not very practical. I would ideally like the class teachers to have the password (not admin details) to allow someone to print off in colour etc rather than me having to.

 

[TriedandTested]

Good stuff. I'm liking this. And thanks.

With what you said, if a student was logged in and went to print something in colour would windows actually prompt for a teacher's login details or would the student need to log off and then the teacher log back in?

After looking around found this:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/printmanagerplus.cfm

Looks quite useful dont you think?