Username In a HEADER??

[Helge Blischke]

Benjamin Cathey wrote:
>>On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 02:37:48PM -0400, Benjamin Cathey wrote:
>>
>>>I know there are cover pages, etc but the idea is to save paper.  We
>>>have a lot of employees who print and leave pages every day - we
>>>throw away reams a week of unclaimed paper.
>>
>>What about installing some print accounting, or even print quota,
>>software ? This way you can easily either bill or limit paper waste.
>>
>>hth
>>
>>Jerome Alet
>>
> 
> 
> Well I was really just hoping for some sort of cups option.  I know that it KNOWS the users name (through samba) - so it is conceivable to do.  I found one solution but it involves editing in c and then compiling from source, which I don't want to have to do either.
> 
> ANYONE?
> 
> It seems like this would be used A LOT.
> 
> Maybe I am the only one who uses Cups on a Samba Domain Controller to serve up 4+ printers.  Although I wouldn't think so.

Perhaps the "alternate pstops filter" may be a choice. It provides an extended page-label
handling which allows you to achieve what you want by hacking
a few lines of PostScript code.

Helge


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Helge Blischke
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