[cups.general] CUPS raw + accounting

Jerome Alet alet at librelogiciel.com
Thu May 25 09:59:47 PDT 2006


On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 10:17:50AM -0400, Greg Surbey wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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.

Or as alredy suggested you could use a real print accounting 
solution for CUPS, and use the drivers you want on the client side. 

bye

Jerome Alet





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