[ale] cups accounting

[John Heim]

I saw pykota but immediately ignored it because they want $25 for it. I also 
looked at the jasmine web site but it said the latest version was from 2006.

So I'm in the process of trying the free version of pykota that you can 
download via svn. I'm not intimidated by trying to compile something but I 
am suspicious that the free version might be quirky because the author would 
have a disincentive to make it friendly. So we will see.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] cups accounting


> 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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