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Prevent printing JPG files Brent Carpenter 02-02-2006
Posted by Brent Carpenter on February 2, 2006, 11:44 am
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 My company stores technical drawings on a standard client computer on our
company domain by scanning the paper documents and saving as .jpg files.
These files need to be made available for users to view across the network,
but I need to stop all but 3 people from printing them.
Is there any way to allow everyone to view the drawings, but only specific
users printing them?
I understand this can be done with .pdf documents but we have hundreds (if
not thousands) of drawings and space is at a premium.



Posted by Robert Moir on February 2, 2006, 1:02 pm
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 Brent Carpenter wrote:
> My company stores technical drawings on a standard client computer on
> our company domain by scanning the paper documents and saving as .jpg
> files. These files need to be made available for users to view across
> the network, but I need to stop all but 3 people from printing them.
> Is there any way to allow everyone to view the drawings, but only
> specific users printing them?

No - unless removing printers from the offices of all but 3 people is a
viable option.



Posted by Steven L Umbach on February 2, 2006, 1:15 pm
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Microsoft has a Technology called Rights Management that can help control
such but I am not sure if it can help your specific problem and it requires
an infrastructure in place that requires at least a Certificate Authority
for PKI and compatible applications. There is a newsgroup dedicated to it if
you also want to post in Microsoft.public.rights_mgmt_svcs. You might also
want to post in the Terminal Services Newsgroups as it may work if you use
TS and can enforce that users can not use their local computer printer in
the TS session but that probably will not stop them from using printscreen
to print an image on a screen. Offhand I don't know if DRM can prevent that
or not. --- Steve


http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/overview/technologies/rmenterprise.mspx

--- link on Rights Management Services

> My company stores technical drawings on a standard client computer on our
> company domain by scanning the paper documents and saving as .jpg files.
> These files need to be made available for users to view across the
> network, but I need to stop all but 3 people from printing them.
> Is there any way to allow everyone to view the drawings, but only specific
> users printing them?
> I understand this can be done with .pdf documents but we have hundreds (if
> not thousands) of drawings and space is at a premium.
>



Posted by Robert Moir on February 2, 2006, 1:41 pm
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Steven L Umbach wrote:
> Microsoft has a Technology called Rights Management that can help
> control such but I am not sure if it can help your specific problem
> and it requires an infrastructure in place that requires at least a
> Certificate Authority for PKI and compatible applications. There is a
> newsgroup dedicated to it if you also want to post in
> Microsoft.public.rights_mgmt_svcs. You might also want to post in
> the Terminal Services Newsgroups as it may work if you use TS and can
> enforce that users can not use their local computer printer in the TS
> session but that probably will not stop them from using printscreen
> to print an image on a screen. Offhand I don't know if DRM can
> prevent that or not. --- Steve

Theres no way to prevent screen scraping. I mean if people are that
desperate they'll just do this:
http://www.robertmoir.co.uk/images/Paranoid.jpg




Posted by Steven L Umbach on February 2, 2006, 2:10 pm
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Thanks for clarifying that Robert. --- Steve


> Steven L Umbach wrote:
>> Microsoft has a Technology called Rights Management that can help
>> control such but I am not sure if it can help your specific problem
>> and it requires an infrastructure in place that requires at least a
>> Certificate Authority for PKI and compatible applications. There is a
>> newsgroup dedicated to it if you also want to post in
>> Microsoft.public.rights_mgmt_svcs. You might also want to post in
>> the Terminal Services Newsgroups as it may work if you use TS and can
>> enforce that users can not use their local computer printer in the TS
>> session but that probably will not stop them from using printscreen
>> to print an image on a screen. Offhand I don't know if DRM can
>> prevent that or not. --- Steve
>
> Theres no way to prevent screen scraping. I mean if people are that
> desperate they'll just do this:
> http://www.robertmoir.co.uk/images/Paranoid.jpg
>
>
>



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