Querying Printers

[Keith Lynn]

Hello everyone,
     I have a question that I hope some of you can help me with. I have
several laboratories that I maintain. Each one has its own printer. The
machines are NT 4.0 clients that are served by Samba running on a
Linux server (RedHat 6.0/6.2). The printer in each laboratory is a Samba
share on the server for that laboratory. I need to find a way to
establish an accounting of how many pages each user is printing. I'm aware
that simply obtaining a page count won't give an accurate measure because
the printer is Postscript(HP 4000N and QMS 1725). But I've read a few
messages that indicated that someone might have a script that could get an
accurate count by using a filter. I've also read some suggestions about
querying the printer to get an accurate count. Does anyone have experience
in doing these things or can you point me to where I might find some
sample scripts? Thanks.

Keith Lynn
Systems Administrator
School of Computer and Information Sciences
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL 36608
Phone: (334) 460-6390
Fax: (334) 460-7274
Alternative E-mail: lynn at gateway.cis.usouthal.edu