Querying Printers

[Buchan Milne]

Ignacio Coupeau wrote:

> 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
> 

Does aprint require the use of post-script printing from the client 
side?  Post-script filters (even with cups/lprng) don't seem to be able 
to take advantage of all the printer features (ie double-sided printing 
on HPDJ970Cxi).