Querying Printers

[Christian Duclou]

Hi,
Here we use  "ppr" wich can manage most of Postscript Printers and some
others.

You'll find ppr :
    http://ppr.trincoll.edu/


C. DUCLOU

Keith Lynn wrote:

> 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

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