Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:53:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@math.ku.dk> To: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: f.bonnet@esiee.fr, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printing quota ? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510201050460.17069@shannon.math.ku.dk> In-Reply-To: <200510200845.j9K8j7kB057664@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <43574B5E.4020503@esiee.fr> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510201022100.16790@shannon.math.ku.dk> <200510200845.j9K8j7kB057664@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Olivier Nicole wrote: >> If the document doesn't look enough like postscript it is >> discarded. Windows users have a hard time getting it right. > > What I wrote will query the printer for page count before and afterthe > job. We tried that also, however, then you have problems if printerjobs are cancelled halfway. Also, the "sanity" check works against accepting print jobs that will cause the the printer to print endless pages with strange characters untill it runs out of paper or the job is cancelled. We had a lot of those because of misconfigured windows machines. Cheers, Erik
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