[cups.general] Printing to Xerox with Xerox Standard Accounting enabled

[Jerome Alet]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 08:06:23AM -0700, Shawn K. wrote:
> At work, I have to print to a Xerox 7345 WorkCenter that has Xerox 
> Standard Accounting enabled.  Windows users get a prompt when they 
> print to enter a group number (in my case, 50), so that total 
> printed pages can be tracked by group.  I get no such prompt with 
> the Linux/CUPS/xerox ppd file.  I only get a series of beeps and a 
> 016-757 error (invalid password). I have tried adding things to the 
> url (ipp://192.168.0.22/ipp/?password=50, etc.).  I have tried 
> creating a user with the name of the group and printing with that, 
> but nothing works.  Does anyone have any insight? 

I can suggest you something that **may** be illegal or not, but that 
is probably at least not in accordance with your company's IT rules. 
So decide for yourself if you want to do it this way : 

Simply install the printer's standard PPD file on your CUPS server,
then direct all printing for this queue to socket://192.168.0.22:9100

This particular setup worked perfectly the last time I've checked, 
but it was for a different brand of printers (I won't give more 
details).

NB : It may not work if your print admin has correctly configured the printer
to disable unwanted protocols, or if there's some firewalling between
your computer and the printer, or if your printer is smarter than the
ones I've checked this "feature" on, or for any other reason. As always
YMMV, but I certify it worked for me.

hth

Jerome Alet