Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 08:41:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.nodak.edu> To: andersoj@enc.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printer accounting woes Message-ID: <199608201341.IAA07772@plains.nodak.edu>
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> The crux of the question at this point is, "How can we get the printer to
> report the number of pages it prints on each job?" The FBSD handbook
> suggests that it can be done (see below) but I've been unable to locate
> any information at HP or on the web about this issue.
>
> A further question is whether or not any more sophisticated printer use
> management programs exist out there for FreeBSD.
postscript printers should give you the page count when you send the
following command down the serial interface:
statusdict begin pagecount end ==
if you ask this question before and after a print job you can easily calculate
the pages printed. Be sure your serial line and application is set for
readng/writing.
If you do not have serial line to every printer, you still can get a pretty
good *text* page count by counting carriage returns and form feeds in the
output filter. This is pretty useless for postscript files, but then a person
could work a filter program using gs to count the pauses between gs processing
the postscript pages.
--mark.
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