My precious mother enjoys accidentally printing 50 pages random

>>58965490
There's no way to print something without having to click additional confirmation as fat as I know. You should really just train your mother better.

Don't leave paper in the tray

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>>58965490
if there is it's configured on the printer, we do this with MFPs at work but the smallest printer I've seen this feature on was small office MFP/fax combos tied in to LDAP mailboxes or proprietary stuff like uniflow.

However, given that a print system on a PC usually has a pause function, I wonder what would happen if you just wrote a cron job or a windows scheduled task to pause the spooler every 30 seconds and made her manually unpause individual jobs to actually print them.

>>58965593
>Don't leave paper in the tray
that's not a bad idea, but she would need to remember to remove extra paper (if any) when done

Maybe just leave the printer off and make her turn it on when she wants to really print something. But then she would need to remember to shut it off when finished.

They make printers that power off after a period (set by user) of non-use. This forces you to power on each time you want to print (if the period has expired).

Also teach her how to cancel a print job in case of emergency

how about you just turn off the printer, you god damned retard

technology problems are best solved with more tech
add a raspberry pi (or your favorite flavor of shitbox) and turn the printer into a kiosk with a Print button

>>58967005
>mum goes and turns the printer back on
>same problem as before

does she pay for the paper and ink op? If so, who cares, let her be.

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>>58967462
I'd almost be willing to bet that she doesn't like wasting money. Ya really think OP is trying to do anything more than to help the helpless?

I'm sure in all the fanciness that is windows there has to be a way to password protect the printer.

>>58965490
write a script that disable the printer every 10 mins and if she wants to print, she has to manually enable it.