[cups.general] page_log

[Ladinig Rudolf]

Jerome Alet wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 03:36:10PM +0200, Ladinig Rudolf wrote:
> 
>>As I need some sort of page-counting, I have two questions:
>>- Is it possible to send the job to the pstops filter and after that 
>>send him to ppmtosplc?
>>- Do you know another way to get a page_log or something similar (Could 
>>a shell script do this before sending the job to ppmtosplc?
> 
> 
>   http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/PyKota/action_Presentation
>   
> Then, whenever you need the page_log (but why would you need it if  
> you used PyKota) :
> 
>   $ dumpykota --data history --format cups >page_log
>         
> or more interesting :        
> 
>   $ dumpykota --data history --format cups username=jerome hostname=192.168.1.1 billingcode=MyProject
>   
> Which would only dump jobs created by jerome on machine 192.168.1.1 and
> for the MyProject project.
>         
> The other advantages are that :        
> 
>         * PyKota can't be bypassed (pstops can be bypassed, as
>           you already know)
>         * PyKota can do hardware accounting as well.
>         * PyKota doesn't care which printer driver you use.
>         * With software accounting, PyKota recognizes the
>           following formats :
>           
>             DSC complianet and Binary PostScript
>             PCLXL (aka PCL6)
>             PCL 3/4/5 (with GhostScript based drivers)
>             ESC/P2
>             PDF
>         * etc...    
>         
> hth        
> 
> Jerome Alet
> 
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Does Pykota work with my printer?
(XEROX 6100DN; no postscript; no snmp; uses his own printing language SPLC)

If Pykota supports my printer, I will surely use it.

thanks,
Rudi