[Samba] Logging print jobs

Marco Gaiarin gaio at sv.lnf.it
Thu May 13 08:55:22 UTC 2021


Mandi! Luke Barone via samba
  In chel di` si favelave...

> Is there a way to log who is printing how many pages to what printer on a
> Samba Print Server?

It is not really true that samba (really: CUPS) is not able to 'count'
pages: there are tools/filters that can rather effectively count pages
for most of the printer languages...

The real topic here is... that pages have to be counted at printer, not
at spooler level: eg, i can send a 200 page print to a printer (and
CUPS count it), but paper was empty, i've changed my idea and i delete
it on the printer.
Effectively i've not printed nothing.


To count pages at printer level you have to use some sort of complex
'toolkit'; the only free one i know is PyKota:
	http://www.pykota.com/

that seems a bit dead.


To count pages at spooler level, you can use some filter (based on
pkpgcounter, a pykota component) and a web interface, see:

	http://jasmine.berlios.de/ (DEAD)
	https://github.com/GabrielRocha/Jasmine-Cups

(i use that).

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