How to watch the print?

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Thu Jul 27 06:24:16 PDT 2006


Joffre wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Normally persons print something freely and have no more record or log to check, it's dangerous to us. Since someone print out our technology drawing and make it open, so I wanna find a way to keep the print record and check the printing data when need. If printing from command, it's easy to backup the printing data  and record the operation at the same time. But if he print from the software window, normally there's one menu to print directly,  I have no way to keep the tail. Is there any way to keep the printing data's snapshot? either other ways to do?
> 
> Some person let me to try cups printing's hooks or the spooler, but I have  no more idea to it. Would you please give some advice?
> 
> Have a good day!
> 
> B.R.
> 
> Joffre

The simplest way to get some information on who when printed what is probably
to wrap all the CUPS backends by something like the beh (BackendErrorHandler)
from linuxprinting.org and use that to dump the print job options together
with a time stamp to a log file of your choice.

Moreover, in CUPS 1.2.x, you could use the notification feature to do that.

Helge


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