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How can I password protect my printer?

How do I password protect my printer in Windows 7?

  • I have two young kids who have gotten rather computer saavy. They love playing their games, especially when it allows them to print out awards or coloring pages. Unfortunately this means that in the time it takes to refresh my cup of coffee, they can easily drop a 10 page document into the printer queue, and my printer ink runs out rather fast. How would I setup some kind of password protection on the printing, so that I would have to do some kind of final approval before they get their printouts?

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    You could try http://printerpassword.com/. Just install PRINTLOCK and provide the printer password of your choice. Whenever someone tries to print, a dialog box will automatically pop-up asking for a printer password. If the correct password is given, PRINTLOCK will release the print job, if not, it will delete it. I have not tried this but I imagine it just controls the Print spooler. I don't think it would be too hard to code up such a program.

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An alternative to purchasing software would be using the Guest account built into Windows 7, since all my kids are doing are running a couple of programs and visiting a few websites. I could restrict (if not done already) the printer to the Guest account, which should leverage UAC to have an admin account approve any printing.

Dillie-O

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