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CUPS Administrative Guide

By : Ankur Shah
Book Image

CUPS Administrative Guide

By: Ankur Shah

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
CUPS Administrative Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
Preface

Setting up Quota in CUPS


As we have discussed in the earlier chapters, quotas can be set with the -o (option) parameter while installing a printer, or later with the lpadmin command for an already existing printer. Quotas can be setup with the following options:

  • CUPS supports the page-count and file size-based quotas for each printer.

  • Quotas are calculated for each user individually. Thus a single set of limits applies to all users for the concerned printer.

  • Quotas can include banner pages (if those are used). It means that we can put a limit on every user to print a certain number of pages (say 10 pages) per day on an expensive printer.

  • Options such as job-k-limit, job-page-limit, and job-quota-period are very important for defining quota while setting up a printer.

  • job-k-limit has a default value 0, which specifies that there is no limit.

  • job-page-limit has a default value 0, which specifies that there is no limit.

  • job-quota-period sets a time interval for quota computing. The default value...