How to control printing?

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The enterprise has many multi-vendor network MFPs and printers. There is no print server, but you can raise it, and there is AD. There is a task - you need to keep track of who and what prints, with the prints stored on a dedicated server, how to control printing? The solution should be free - all SecretNets and Stakhanovites should not be offered.

Answer 1

Free, angry, inconvenient, it will do for a "tick" "everything is monitored by us, boss!":
1) Get all printers on the print server.
2) Monitor EventID 307 events in the Microsoft-Windows-PrintService/Operational log. There will be - who typed, when, how many pages and the name of the document.
3) In the printer queue settings, enable the "keep printed documents" checkbox. In the security settings of printers, remove the rights to delete your documents from the print queue. Printed jobs will continue to hang in queues, it will be possible to re-start printing if necessary.
4) Clean queues with a script on a schedule.