Does anyone have a solution for this situation?

My high school wants to set a printer quota for students.  I can't find a product 
to do it because we don't use print servers, each machine prints directly to the 
room's network printer IP.  We have XP machines on a Windows 2003 Active Directory 
domain.

I set up the network printers as a 'local printer' using an IP port because it was 
easier to control the default printer that way.  When we had shared network printers 
(\\servername\printername) installed on the XP machines, they would follow the users 
and not stay set for any user who might log on to that machine.  This was very confusing 
to the students and they never knew where they were printing.  Sometimes they didn't 
have any printers, sometimes they had lots.  Once I set it up that each machine had 
a 'local' printer set to its default printer, the printer setup didn't vary with 
the user logging on.  With over 1400 users in the high school, this has saved a lot 
of headaches!

However now they want to have printer quotas because some students are printing huge 
documents.  I can't find any product that does printer quotas unless we use print 
servers, which we don't.   Any suggestions?  Is there some way I can set this up 
so that users print on the printer local to that machine AND we can have a print 
quota?

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