Sharp AR-M620N with user account numbers.

[Helge Blischke]

Patrick Rady wrote:
> I am trying to use a Sharp AR-M620N in a multitenant environment. Users *must* enter their account number with print jobs. Windows and Mac users enter their code into a dialog box under printer preferences. The driver creates a PS or PCL file with some PJL commands at the start, including one to control accounting details on the photocopier:
> 
> @PJL SET ACCOUNTNUMBER="01253"
> 
> How can I get CUPS 1.3.2 to properly send this account number to the printer? Without it all I get is a notice page stating "Printing by unregistered account code is disabled by key operator programs."
> 
> I'm using CUPS 1.3.2 on Ubuntu 7.04.
> 
> This has been a real showstopper for us, preventing a smooth migration to Linux.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Patrick Rady
> 

One possible solution might be to enforce a special filter
by using the
	*cupsFilter
statement in the respecive printer's PPD, that inserts
the needed PJL statement and gets the account number from a
job attribute (command line option). Note that some of
the GUI programs aroune (like xpp) permit to issue user
defined options.

Helge

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