Printing
Front-desk metered printing and member self-service.
Printing runs through a real physical setup — a Raspberry Pi
(apps/print-agent) at the location talking to CUPS and a real printer —
not a simulated feature.
Front-desk metered printing
Front desk can print jobs on behalf of walk-ins, metered and billed manually — cash, check, terminal, bill-to-a-member's-account, or void. This is the fallback path for any job that can't be automatically attributed to a member's own account.
Member self-service printing
A member with the install kit set up can print directly from their own device, with pages and color automatically metered and billed — either to their card on file or added to their invoice, depending on their configured billing preference. Identity is carried via a dedicated, per-customer CUPS print queue rather than a shared queue with credentials, which sidesteps a real limitation in how modern Windows handles printer authentication.
Free prints and overage (not currently wired up)
An office lease has fields for a configured number of free prints per month and a per-page overage rate, and staff can set them. These values aren't actually read anywhere in the real pricing/metering path — every print job is currently priced purely off the location's flat per-page rates, regardless of what's set on a lease. Setting these fields today has no effect; don't rely on them until this is actually wired up.
If a print job doesn't bill correctly
See Print System Troubleshooting — page/color metering and correct billing attribution are the two things worth checking first.