Printing quota ?

Olivier Nicole on at cs.ait.ac.th
Thu Oct 20 02:22:50 PDT 2005


> > What I wrote will query the printer for page count before and afterthe
> > job.
> 
> We tried that also, however, then you have problems if printerjobs 
> are cancelled halfway.

For us it is OK to forget to count a job from time to time, as the
filter queries the printer before and after, the next job will start a
new count anyway.

> Also, the "sanity" check works against accepting print jobs that
> will cause the the printer to print endless pages with strange 
> characters untill it runs out of paper or the job is cancelled. We 
> had a lot of those because of misconfigured windows machines.

Well, I have my guy install the printers on the machines for the
users, so they use the right driver :)

Olivier


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