[cups.general] Getting printjob pagecounts when SNMP won't work

[Jerome Alet]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:07:15AM -0800, Rob Tanner wrote:
> 
> I am setting up a print server where we will be doing print charge back 
> accounting  (users pay by the page).  The backend wrapper "accsnmp" 
> works great for all but two printers that are too old and don't support 
> the common printer MIB.  Therefore, I presume that I need to use either 
> postscript or pcl to read the pagecounter before and after, and also to 
> get the printer status (printing and idle).  Does anyone have any code 
> snippets that do that or is there yet another mechanism to accomplish 
> the same thing.

You could grab PyKota using subversion :

  $ cd /tmp
  $ svn co svn://svn.librelogiciel.com/pykota/trunk pykota
  $ cd pykota/pykota/accounters
  
and then :

  $ python pjl.py your_printer_ip_address
  
if you've got a meaningful result, then adapt this Python script to your  
needs (no need to setup PyKota at all).

NB : the script should exit after 3 or 4 queries to the printer,
if not, you're on your own...

hoping this helps

bye

Jerome Alet