Re: postscript accounting

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From: Tom Neff
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1991 03:54

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In article <YXOC.91Mar8143905@fb14vax.cs.uni-sb.de> yxoc@cs.uni-sb.de (Ralf Treinen) writes:
>We are going to buy a postscript printer and would like to monitor the
>usage of the printer. For this purpose we would like to have a tool that
>is able to count the pages of a postscript file. Does this make any sense
>to you? Can you tell me how to write/get such a thing?

If the goal is to monitor _over-all_ use of the printer, then just buy
something that prints a page count as part of its self-test status
report.  The latest generation of laser printers mostly do this.

If you need to do it _per user_, it's a tougher task.  If the printer interface
is serial or bidirectional parallel, you could hack the spooler to
actually ask the printer for its pagecount after every job.

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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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Subject: Re: postscript accounting
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Date: 10 Mar 91 03:54:45 GMT
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