[cups.general] CUPS raw + accounting

[Greg Surbey]

On 5/24/06, jimmy j. <jimmyjohnson1297 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Just asking to make sure, but there is no way to account for raw printing
> from cups right? So a win client prints as many pages as they want and cups
> counts this as 1 page if cups was set up as raw.
>
> Also, is there any way for cups to view the client's print queue which
> would have the number of pages printed. We would like to implement a quota
> and accouting system for windows, but use raw mode for the printing.
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Jimmy, from what I've read I believe your above desciption of CUPS
capabilities and limitations on raw printing is accurate.  However, if you
use the Adobe or CUPS Postscript driver in Windows priting to IPP without
raw mode you can most likely keep track of pages.

-- 
Greg Surbey
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