[cups.general] socket backend pagecounting off by one

[alet at librelogiciel.com]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:26:49AM -0700, Helge Blischke wrote:
>
> If a reliable page count is essentioal - e.g. for billing reasons - I'd
> suggest to insert a filter that uses Ghostscript's nullpage device and a
> dozen line PostScript routine to count the pages (unless Ghostscript is
> involved anyway; e.g. foomatic-rip provides a page count).
>

Unfortunately this is not reliable for non-postscript printer drivers
(e.g. raw printing PCL-XL from Windows boxes), and not always reliable in case
of a hardware problem at printing time (paper jam for example)

bye

Jerome Alet