Another group setting that may be of interest is the “Control Printers” switch. When you first create a group, by default group members do not have operation control of any group printers: that is, by default group members cannot see other members’ jobs queued to such a printer nor start nor stop jobs on the printer. If you wish all group members to have limited operation control over group printers – see all queued jobs (including any job “REQUEST”), be able to start and stop jobs, and be able to rearrange the order of jobs in the printer queue – then move this switch to the “on” position; see Figure 7.43.
Enabling “Control Printers” access does not permit group members to edit each others’ print jobs in the print queue, or remove each others’ print jobs from a print queue, or move others’ print jobs to a different printer.
Note that “Control Printers” access may be particularly suitable for classes or groups of experienced, reliable students (whereas printer manager access, in contrast, has further privileges, such as the ability to invite or delete Polar Cloud member access to the printer, and access the printer local web interface from within the Polar Cloud, privileges which may not be appropriate to delegate to students). For classroom or lab printers, whether or not you wish to configure a printer so that class group members may control the printer themselves may depend on the age and maturity of your students. For younger students, you may wish to retain all printer control yourself, whereas it may be convenient to allow printer control to an entire class of experienced or older students. If you wish to permit printer control to only a few, selected students in a class, consider defining two groups of students, those with control access and those without, sharing use of the printer with both groups.
Click the “SAVE” button (towards the upper right of the “SETTINGS” screen) after making any changes to the group’s “Control Printers” switch setting.