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	Here are the replies I received to my query on how to get accounting
information (number of pages printed) for PostScript jobs.

	I am including all the replies I received, I have not as yet tried out
any of the suggestions, although it seems that Adobe Transcript should be
sufficient for our needs. If transcript is not available, then the modified
print spooler mentioned in the first message should work, although as the third
message points out, it may not work with all printers.

	Thanks to all who replied.

Aloke Majumdar

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From: mongo%helios.UCSC.EDU@ucscc.ucsc.edu (Lick Mongo Development)

You need to be running a print spooler which does just as you say,
ask the printer how many pages have been printed.
We have our own home-grown print spooler if you want to look at it.
use anonymous ftp
helios.ucsc.edu:/u/ftp/pub/printps.tar.Z

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From: Terry Jones <tj@utcs.utoronto.ca>

Adobe transcript does this.
tj

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From: vidiot!brown%astroatc.UUCP@cs.wisc.edu (Michael L. Brown)

You don't say which printer you have attached to the SPARCstation.  If it is
the SPARCprinter, at this point in time you can't find out how many pages
have been printed.  I have been informed by Sun that this problem is being
looked into.  They may have something for the next release.

If you have other types of PostScript printers, you have to consult the
printer manual, but most PostScript compatible printers have a way to ask
it the number of pages that it has printed.  You can ask for that value before
and after the job is printed and you can then determine how many pages were
printed for that job.

If the printer is a HP LaserJet type of printer, they don't have the means
to report the number of pages printed.

MB

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