topic Students adding a printer from home in Peer-Peer Topics

Students adding a printer from home

jwisniewski — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 19:44:31 GMT

We have OS settings turned off for students (for obvious reasons). Is there a way to allow them to add a home printer without opening up settings in general? Is there a way to whitelist the printer setting? We have the printer set to allow them to add printers, but without access to settings it's meaningless.

Re: Students adding a printer from home

ddelboccio — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 22:25:14 GMT

I know HP has a chrome extension that works pretty easily to be able to print to HP printers when on the same network. I remember using this a few times for parents during the pandemic. Haven't touched it a few years, but this is the link:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hp-secure-print-for-chrom/oihpdhcfocgfdkdkpgekncnimiegpnpa

Re: Students adding a printer from home

panderson — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 14:57:58 GMT

We block most of the settings using the allowlists but allow printers and other things by adding the "URL" (chrome://print, etc.), and then they have to know to type in the page needed. Kind of a pain, but it works.