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>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. We have 2 color laser (kinda) printers and one HP 
>Design Jet 600. One particular problem is that the DesignJet 600 is the 
>variable paper sizes. We don't know what to do about that, maybe charge 
>per print job based on one 'normal' size that we use.
>
>If there isn't a FREE utility, is there one at all, or several? Can you 
>recommend them? 
>
>Thanks in advance!! Copy follow ups to dhyde@unmc.edu PLEASE??

Don:

I did some investigation on this for a local college and could not find anything which would 
allow you to charge back users (per page or per character) for the use of printers under 
NetWare.  The closest I got to was a print server box (ie: like Intel's NetPort or HP Jet Direct 
box's) that worked under Unix which would provide this capability but unless you want to send 
your print jobs through a UNIX box it's not an alternative.  I don;t know of anything thet is 
available for free

When I was talking to MicroPlex Systems Ltd, (phone 800-665-7798, 604-444-4232, or email 
info@microplex.com) and casually suggested that they might want to look into adding this option 
for their print server box's on the NetWare side. According to their literature, the ethernet 
print server would generate a log file of who is printing and how many pages were printed but 
after a follow up call it was only if you were using UNIX that you would get this capability.

I am going to contact them again to see if anything has changed.  I would also be interested if 
anyone else knows of a product which will allow us to charge back users for printing on a 
NetWare system (free or otherwise).

Mark