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by tyler.ghosheh 1 view

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As a company, we are seeking a specific industry organization certification. One of the requirements we have to meet is an IT related one. This specific requirement includes that all printed jobs are to state the user in the domain who had printed the document, in either the header or footer - or even a watermark.

We use an HP line of laserjet printers that do not support this feature...

Any suggestions?

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by oh smeg

Is to replace the printers with something that will do the job.

You need to state here how the printers are connected and to what. Are they connected directly top the Computer that the person uses or are they on a Print Server?

We also need to know what OS is in use where the printers are connected and what software is being used to print from.

Col

by churdoo

If your certification requirements allow for a leading page with this information at the start of each print job, also known as a banner or separator page, then this functionality is built into Windows Printing. Go to a printer properties / Advanced tab / Separator Page button, and refer to this article. There are canned separator pages built in, browse for *.sep or you can create your own.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/102712

by tyler.ghosheh

Looks like the cover/separator pages are not sufficient.

We have over 150 HP (1320, 2015, 3500, 3600) printers on a w2k3 print server.

by oh smeg

A Template on every computer Account and that has the Account Holders Name in it. But the problem with that is that it requires every application that can be printed from to have it's own Template and then for every User Account.

Without knowing what is really required by the Complaining Requirements it's very hard to say any more than that.

But just remember that you can print from Notepad, Word, Access, Excel the screen if necessary and if all of these need to have the Account Holders Name included on the Printed Page it gets a bit more difficult.

There are also Programs like Photo Editing that can print photos or Graphics Programs like Corel Draw that you can print from so you need to look at a Hardware solution if any of these are in use.

Really without knowing what is involved and the Network Configuration it's very hard to offer anything else.

Col

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