[cups.general] Practicalites of non-DSC-conformant PostScript

[Michael Sweet]

Johannes Meixner wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Nov 21 13:25 Michael Sweet wrote (shortened):
>> Some folks setup Samba to print using the "raw" or
>> "document-format=application/vnd.cups-raw" options; this bypasses
>> the usual filtering without resorting to a separate queue.  The down
>> side is that you lose page accounting...
> 
> How can page accounting (e.g. via pstops) work in general
> when the Windows clients run a printer driver and send
> whatever random printer specific data?

In general, it can't.  If you have a filter associated with the type
of data provided by the driver, it is possible you could count form
feeds, etc. to provide the accounting information to CUPS.

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