From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 15 10:50:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA26543 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 10:50:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from itsdsv1.enc.edu (itsdsv1.enc.edu [199.93.252.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA26536 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 10:50:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from itsdpc3 (itsdpc3.enc.edu [199.93.252.237]) by itsdsv1.enc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA02900 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 13:50:22 -0400 Message-ID: <321363A9.75C@enc.edu> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 13:51:37 -0400 From: Jon Anderson Reply-To: andersoj@enc.edu Organization: Eastern Nazarene College X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Printer Use Management Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The following is excerpted from the FreeBSD handbook: ---------begin excerpt text 7.6.5.2. How Can You Count Pages Printed? In order to perform even remotely accurate accounting, you need to be able to determine how much paper a job uses. This is the essential problem of printer accounting. ... blah blah ... There is only one sure way to do accurate accounting. Get a printer that can tell you how much paper it uses, and attach it via a serial line or a network connection. Nearly all PostScript printers support this notion. Other makes and models do as well (networked Imagen laser printers, for example). Modify the filters for these printers to get the page usage after they print each job and have them log accounting information based on that value only. There is no line counting nor error-prone file examination required. ---------end excerpt text How have others accomplished this task? We are using primarily HP LaserJet 4 printers, and it has come time to do some accounting. Thanks. JA