[cups.general] Re: pstops not being called

[Martin Drab]

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Helge Blischke wrote:

> What looks your printing setup in samba like?
> 
> Helge
> 
> 
> Daniel Lawson wrote:
> > 
> > I'm trying to set up printer accounting (very trivial, just want 
> > job/page counts per user / printer - don't care about quota, just want 
> > to yell at person(s) printing too much).
> > 
> > I have an HP Color Laserjet 4550 CN, which is set up via cups (1.1.20) 
> > using the vendor provided PPD. I'm sharing the printer via samba, 
> > however I've tried via IPP as well to no avail. I'm using the 4550 PS 
> > driver under WinXP.
> > 
> > It seems that pstops is not being called when printing from this host, 
> > and this is the reason for the accounting to fail.

Perhaps you may have the same problem I had?
 
> > The problem is this:
> > 
> > * If I print from the Windows XP host, I don't get an entry in the page_log.
> > 
> > * If I print from the cups web interface, I get an entry in the page_log.
> > 
> > * If I print from the Windows XP host using the 4550 PCL driver, I get an entry in the page_log.
> > 
> > Now, I could reinstall all the printers to use the PCL driver, but this *should* work!
> > 
> > I've strace()d cups while printing, and pstops doesn't get called if I 
> > use the 4550 PS driver under XP, however it *does* get called in all 
> > the other situations.
> > 
> > I'm figuring there is something trivial I'm missing. Any thoughts?
> > 
> > Running Debian Woody, with backports for cups (1.1.20), gs-esp 
> > (7.05.6) and samba3 (3.0.4)

I don't know how much does HP 4550 differ from HP 4600, but perhaps if you 
want to look for what config files and PPD I'm using for the HP 4600dn, 
you can take a look at <http://kiplprint.fjfi.cvut.cz/ppd/>. The page 
accounting is now working perfectly. I'm then using LIRE to create some 
basic statistics.

Martin Drab