[cups.general] Page Accounting and Charging schemes: Are there any that can be used with cups?

[Jerome Alet]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 02:22:49PM -0400, wtautz wrote:
> Hello, I was wondering what methods exist for tracking page counts per
> user per printer etc.
> Ulimately it would be nice to have cups look into an ldap database and
> do some
> checks before accepting a job, perhaps it could tally the page counts
> and total charges, etc....
> 
> Any thoughts? Basically this entails being able to get reliable page
> count data from printers
> per job....

May I suggest PyKota ?

It seems to do at least all of what you ask :

    http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/PyKota/action_Features
    
hth    

Jerome Alet