HP CP3525 Color Usage Job Log

Wouter Depuydt narrenschip1 at operamail.com
Fri Jan 14 08:58:22 PST 2011


> Wouter Depuydt wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > We'd like to monitor color printing usage at our office. The HP CP3525 has
> > a 'Color Usage Job log' page on it's built-in web server. It shows
> > date/user/job/application/pages details for each print job sent from an
> > Windows computer. However, the User/Job/Application details are empty for
> > print jobs from a CUPS/Linux computer. That means we can't distinguish
> > between linux users/desktops. We are running Debian 'Lenny' with CUPS
> > 1.3.8 and Samba 3.5.8.
> >
> > I've tried direct connection (JetDirect, socket://PRINTER:9100) and
> > through our windows printer server (smb://USER:PASSWD@SERVER/PRINTER).
> > Both configurations print fine but don't show User/Job/Application details
> > in the 'Color Usage Jog log'.
> >
> > I've looked at 'lpoption' and 'lpadmin' but couldn't find any related
> > settings. The 'smbspool' man page mentions {job} {user} {title} {copies}
> > options that are (quote) 'presently not used by smbspool'. What
> > options/driver/connection-type do I have to use to make this work?
> >
> > W;-)
>
> I suspect the color usage information is passed to the printer by PJL
> commands.
> I'd suggest to capture a job ofiginating from a Win box and analyze the PJL
> statements at the beginning.
> With that information, it sould be possible to either upgrade the socket
> backend accordingly or write a post monitor which pdates the PJL commands
> (the latter may be a Perl or Python script, I think).
>
> Helge
>

Thanks for the info. Didn't know about PJL. I'll have a look at it.

W;-)




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