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meyerm

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Tuesday, November 4th 2003, 1:23pm

Acounting with kprinter/cups(/windows)

Hi there,

we have a hp laserjet 4000 PostScript Printer, attached to the network. For now, everybody can talk to it. But we want to restrict the use of it with our cups-server - also in the network.

Now the big question: how can I restrict printing or at least count the pages people are printing? The best would be if they can distinguish between single projects. There are some accounting text fields in the kprint dialog. But anyone can enter anything, right?

Perhaps this is more a cups-question, but I hope to get an answer here too. :-) How can I set up this "I-want-to-know-who-printed-how-much-for-which-project" with cups? Since there are clients on the workstations with kprinter, on the notebooks with other cups stuff and some even with Windows(TM)(R)(C)(foo)(bar), this doesn't look tooo easy for me ;-)? Perhaps I should restrict using RAW-access and only allowing PS. But would this work with windows?? argl...

Thanks for reading this "creative" english :-)
Marcel

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Wednesday, November 5th 2003, 10:30am

CUPS docs say pages are logged to page_log
http://www.cups.org/sam.html#7_12_3

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