MVP allows an administrator to restrict color printing for specific users for supported color printers on a network. Administrators can closely monitor and save color printing resources by restricting color printing access. MVP print permissions technology consists of two related tasks that control user access to color printing:
Users Table—Displays and controls access to color printing by User ID.
Hosts Table—Controls print permissions on a specific host computer allowing you to override user-level permissions on a specific host computer.
Specify color permissions (whether a user may print with color) for a user by adding his or her ID to the Users Table. For example, if a user with access to the Users Table task sets color permissions to On, the color permission for their host computer can be disabled by setting the Color permission to Off, and the Override permission to On in the Hosts Table. If color printing is disallowed, jobs will still print, but in monochrome.
The following tables illustrate some print permission settings scenarios:
User ID | Color | Result |
|---|---|---|
Mary | On | Mary can print color on any selected printer. |
Bob | Off | Bob cannot print color on any selected printer. |