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Basically:

Since yesterday our school has come up with a new Pay-Per-Print policy. As real IT-ers, our first step is to avoid this policy at all costs.

We succeeded to print for free, but to do this we took a laptop, went physically to the printer, plugged in with an USB cable. Downloaded drivers and printed. This works of course. But everytime someone wants to print, we gotta do this 'work-around'. It's also kinda fishy looking.. Sitting right next to the printer with laptop..


Anyway, the printer is spread across the network trough IPP. Anyone happen to know any details about how this works? If you send a print command to the printer via IPP it will say: Unknown Error - Paused.

Any type of hint or anything to bypass this would really help!

Well thank you everyone. Really helpful. Well I got news for ya'll.

I reached the printer, know now how to print remotely. And I've even written an easy to use program in Java for myself.

The only downside is that I can only send TXT, PS, PDF and PRN files to print. Which isn't a problem again too. 'Cause school work is mostly text files, Word documents and Visio (Basically MS Office). Which all let you easily "Print to File", thus creating a PRN file for the printer. (School PC's, they have the printer's driver automatically installed).

In other words: I'm around the system and printing for F.R.E.E.
And thank you.. a lot.... (not).

a wrote:Well thank you everyone. Really helpful. Well I got news for ya'll.

I reached the printer, know now how to print remotely. And I've even written an easy to use program in Java for myself.

The only downside is that I can only send TXT, PS, PDF and PRN files to print. Which isn't a problem again too. 'Cause school work is mostly text files, Word documents and Visio (Basically MS Office). Which all let you easily "Print to File", thus creating a PRN file for the printer. (School PC's, they have the printer's driver automatically installed).

In other words: I'm around the system and printing for F.R.E.E.
And thank you.. a lot.... (not).

......did it not occur to you that no one really cares? (note the lack of responses)