[ale] cups accounting

[Jim Kinney]

The free version is the same as the $25 version. The $25 version is packaged
nicer. Think srpm vs. rpm from RedHat but not as complicated.

It's not clear that the $25 is a one-time-fee-for-life :-)

I forked over the $$ years ago and was very impressed. Somewhere in my email
is my access data....

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 9:13 AM, John Heim <john at johnheim.net> wrote:

> 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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James P. Kinney III

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
- *2011 Noam Chomsky*
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