Summary

In this chapter, we have discussed quota management with CUPS. As a managed printer system, CUPS provides features to manage printers by setting up quotas. Currently there are a number of improvements such as more flexibility, advanced accounting, and support for other tools around quotas planned in the future versions of CUPS. Though CUPS has very limited internal features to handle complex scenarios, more can be achieved through a CUPS add-on quota system such as PyKota. It is a granular quota management system that has the ability to manage printers and users and can fill a gap left by CUPS built-in quota management system.