socket backend pagecounting off by one

[John A. Murdie]

Jerome Alet wrote:
> I've not seen socket's code in a logn time, however from my experience
> what should be done is first waiting some time for the printer to be in
> 'printing' state, and then waiting for it to become 'idle' again but for
> a minimum amount of time in order for this 'idle' state to be reliable :
> some printers even go from printing to idle to printing between pages of
> the same job !
>
> bye
>
> Jerome Alet

Yes, that's the usual solution. I stress that when an HP printer finally goes idle, however, the page count is not necessarily final.

John A. Murdie