My printer keeps being hi-jacked by my co-worker.

Strange but true... she physically removes my printer cable from my PC and
connects it to hers (which would be okay with me if she would reconnect it to
my PC when she is finished). I have asked her repeatedly not to leave me
stranded like this but I believe she takes advantage of my printer as I am
not always in the office but work remotely but I still need to be able to
print so when I come into the office my documents will be waiting for me.
This printer was not purchased by her group and we have the same supervisor
so I don't want to cause a scene but would love to have a way to prevent her
from being able to hi-jack my printer. Does anyone know of a way that I can
prevent this from happening (besides supergluing my cable to my PC). Surely
there is a way this can be done internally via software. My printer is a HP
LJ4250tn (which has network capability but I do not want to network it as it
would cause me even more trouble since it is in my office) (which I
unfortunately share with her). Sorry to babble... I'm just frustrated and
want to keep friction to a minimal level. She needs to print down the hall
to the network printer but she is simply too lazy to walk down the hall. My
system is Windows XP Professional.

Thanks in advance.
Bonnie

"Bonnie" <Bonnie (AT) discussions (DOT) microsoft.com> wrote

Strange but true... she physically removes my printer cable from my PC and
connects it to hers (which would be okay with me if she would reconnect it
to
my PC when she is finished). I have asked her repeatedly not to leave me
stranded like this but I believe she takes advantage of my printer as I am
not always in the office but work remotely but I still need to be able to
print so when I come into the office my documents will be waiting for me.
This printer was not purchased by her group and we have the same
supervisor
so I don't want to cause a scene but would love to have a way to prevent
her
from being able to hi-jack my printer. Does anyone know of a way that I
can
prevent this from happening (besides supergluing my cable to my PC).
Surely
there is a way this can be done internally via software. My printer is a
HP
LJ4250tn (which has network capability but I do not want to network it as
it
would cause me even more trouble since it is in my office) (which I
unfortunately share with her). Sorry to babble... I'm just frustrated and
want to keep friction to a minimal level. She needs to print down the
hall
to the network printer but she is simply too lazy to walk down the hall.
My
system is Windows XP Professional.

Thanks in advance.
Bonnie

Creative use of a two-by-four comes to mind
Seriously, you're out of luck. Once the data cable is disconnected from your
PC, you have no way to issue instructions to "disable" the printer.