[ale] cups accounting

[Jim Kinney]

http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.4/accounting.html  is the
theoretical "master page". And yes, it's very unsatisfying.

The 3rd-party app pykota does amazing print management.
http://www.pykota.com/



On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:58 PM, John Heim <john at johnheim.net> wrote:

> I have been googling for days and from what I can figure, print accounting
> is nearly impossible in cups. There doesn't seem to be a way to call a
> script right before the job is sent to a printer and then again right
> after.
> If I could do that, I could use snmp to get the page count. There is a
> page_log file but that doesn't say whether the pages printed were color or
> b/w.
>
> Anybody have any idea how print accounting is done with cups?
>
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