Feature request: mandatory "Job-Billing" entry

[Michael Sweet]

Alexey Lobanov wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> Can anyone help me to implement mandatory manual entry of
> "Job-Billing" value at every print job in Windows CUPS driver? The
> aim is simple enough: server-side job accounting (with Pykota or
> Jasmine) should count pages per "project", not per user. A regular
> user works for several projects, and only he|she knows what project
> should be charged for every individual print job.
> 
> In the present driver version the "Job-Billing" is stored in registry
> and cannot be even changed without administrative rights.

Strange, since "job-billing" is part of the printing preferences
(in the devmode structure) and thus can be set per-job.

I'm not sure if there would be a way to force the user to enter a
value here, since the print dialog may never get invoked...

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