Querying Printers

[Ignacio Coupeau]

David Bannon "aprint" page has a very good solution.
We are using it (with +600 ws and samba 2.0.7 ) and manage the
accounting with an external database.
note: use LPRng.

http://bioserve.latrobe.edu.au/about/admin/aprint/aprint.html


Simo Sorce wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 J.L.Gilmour at exeter.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> >
> > > I made a filter with a file database for user quotas, but t

Simo Sorce wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 J.L.Gilmour at exeter.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> >
> > > I made a filter with a file database for user quotas, but this involved
> > > the use of postscript only printfiles (and possibly generated by Adobe
> > > Postscript drivers because others tend to forget the Pages count field in
> > > the postscript file, anyway when this miss a 'page' command is issued to
> > > retrieve the number of pages).
> >
> > We've tried various techniques, but the only reliable fix is to
> > query the postscript printer's page counter.
> 
> The two maybe integrated.
> >
> > Our main problem was powerpoint and other MS products printing 4-up,
> > and our ever-creative students hand editing the postscript file to bypass
> > or confuse the page counting.
> 
> Yes that's a problem with smart students, but user base are not always so
> smart (...).
> 
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