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In article <3sehin$jne@news.ox.ac.uk> Robin McCleery <robin.mccleery@zoology.ox.ac.uk> writes:
>From: Robin McCleery <robin.mccleery@zoology.ox.ac.uk>
>Subject: Re: Utility to monitor printer usage??
>Date: 23 Jun 1995 14:03:03 GMT

>knapp@alpha.fdu.edu (Ralph Knapp) wrote:
>>MARK PINDER <mpinder@awinc.com> wrote:
>>>>Is there a free utility to monitor the usage of Novell 3.12 printers? We 
>>>>have a couple of printers that are rather expensive operationally and we 
>>>>would like to charge back the users for these particular printers, 
>>>>preferrably per sheet.
>Novell itself (at least my 3.12 set up) provides a mechanism for setting up
>print queues for printers that are either connected dire=
>ctly to the server or are networkable - it works particularly well for appletalk
>printers provided you have appletalk print services=
> loaded. You can have a different charge per page etc. on different print
>queues. In theory ATOTAL will total everything up for you,=
> but I cant get it to work, and it is generally rumoured to be flaky. What does
>seem to work is a utility (shareware I think) called=
> PAUDIT2, which processes the net$acct file and optionally creates a database
>table, which you can use to sort out the charging info=
> We plan to use this mechanism to charge for shared printing in our student
>classroom (400 users of 40 machines, all wanting to pri=
>nt off the Rowing Club newsletter etc for free!!!).
>PAUDIT2 is part of the Schreiber bundle of shareware utilities


There is a replacement for pserver.exe and/or pserver.nlm that can count pages 
on postscript and pcl-printers. It works quite well. You can try the shareware 
version called pcnt3??.zip on simtel/novell.

Klaus