Missing print jobs in page_log

[Shimi Chen]

>
> Hello,
>
> On May 11 04:58 Shimi Chen wrote (excerpt):
> > Some print jobs being sent to the server from MS Windows
> > workstations ... are not logged in the page_log file.
>
> I assume the reason is what is described in
> http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.4/accounting.html
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> Page logging is only available for drivers that provide page
> accounting information, typically all PostScript and CUPS raster
> devices. Raw queues ... do not have useful page accounting
> information available.
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>
> In particular regarding Windows clients see
> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Printer_Accounting
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> In contrast when there are users who print from Windows to your
> Linux print server, the default CUPS software accounting is not
> really useful. The usual way to print from Windows to Linux is
> that on the Windows client machine the Windows printer driver
> is run. The driver produces printer specific data which is
> then printed in "raw" mode on the Linux print server. In this
> case the default CUPS software accounting cannot count pages.
> For each "raw" print job there may be none or at most a single
> entry in /var/log/cups/page_log but the page count value could
> be only a dummy value "1" regardless how many pages were
> actually printed.
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>
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner
> --
> SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany
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>
Is there any way to prevent printing in "raw" mode and just accept postscript so that the log will work correctly?