[cups.general] Print Accounting
Dan Tappin
dan at orourke.ca
Thu Mar 24 11:51:28 PST 2005
I am looking for a print accounting system and have been pointed at
CUPS more than a few times.
I run a small Windows (98, 2000 & XP) based office and we have a Xserve
running OS X as a SMB fileserver. Now the Xserve is already running
CUPS and I have been looking at running all the various stand alone
networked printers through the Xserve and CUPS.
The one issue that I can't seem to resolve is print accounting. In the
ideal world every print job would require a client code i.e. no code no
printing. On my OS X Power book the print driver for default printer
(a HP 4050) has a billing info field. This does not seem to exist on
the other Windows drivers in the office.
If I run the printers though the Xserve and CUPS I see from the docs
that I can log billing info... I am just at a loss as how to have the
users enter this and force the billing info to be entered on all (or
selected) printers. Do I need custom printer drivers?
Thanks,
Dan
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