In order to try and reduce maintenance costs\ licensing costs we're thinking of moving all our regional site servers data down to our main data centre and then dumping a Ubuntu print server in each site running on an old junker desktop. I've currently got a VM set up on my machine which I'm testing this idea with but I'm having a few annoying little niggles which I was hoping someone could help me sort out?

1) Every time I install a printer from the Ubuntu server, it asks me for a driver install... Any way of stopping this from happening? (HP CLJ 2840 using the 2800 series PS driver)

2) We don't like users printing in colour, it costs too much. I've defined the printer locally to not print colour, but the Windows clients completely ignore this, any way to get them to pick up the settings? Or would I have to do some jiggery pokery within windows?

3) I've not managed printers from within Linux before - but if I were to install say, webmin, would that give me a nice webGUI for installing\managing printers without having to install log on locally (I'm thinking giving helpdesk a logon to webmin to allow them to install\manage printers on the server... One less thing for me to do, yay.)

If any of you have any insight into the above, it'd be a great help.

Thanks,

Rich