Printing Accounting

[Michael Glauche]

Claus Färber wrote:
> 
> Keith Lynn <lynn at cis.usouthal.edu> schrieb/wrote:
> > Does Samba give the option of tracking activity through the spooler such
> > as the number of pages printed?
> 
> Hm, there's a problem with that: What printer drivers actually send is
> raw printer data or raw Postscript. You would have to parse that in
> order to determine the pages printed.

Yes .. IIRC that is possible when using postscript printers.
You should give the LPRng project some closer look, (www.lprng.org)
It comes with some filters that DO printing accounting for postscrpipt
printers. (They just count the "begin page" words in postscript
documents :)
But ... this is more a LPR issue than a samba issue ... :)

regards,
   Michael
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