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| Thread ID: 37326 | 2003-09-04 02:43:00 | Printer woes... | Rank32 (3732) | Press F1 |
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| 172914 | 2003-09-04 02:43:00 | Hey all, quick question. I have a shared network printer and am wanting to log it's activity, mainly how many pages other people on the network are printing. The printer is shared on a Windows 2000 machine.. This machine also has a user account for each computer on the network that is using the printer. The other computers are a mixture of Win95, Win98 and Win2000. At the moment when they print it looks like this: www.vadal.net I want it more like this: www.vadal.net The main thing is the amount of pages printed from computers other than the one that the printer is connected to. I have noticed that on the Windows 2000 machines, if you sign in as admin it shows the amount of pages printed, but I don't want everyone to have admin access. If anyone has any ideas, suggestions or whatever then please speak up! :o) Also, is anyone can suggest any *free* software to help manage a printer in this situation that would be good. Yeah, you guessed it, I work in an internet cafe. :o) |
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| 172915 | 2003-09-04 05:05:00 | I have a couple of AXIS printer servers --- small boxes which sit on the Ethernet cable and post files for the computers. They keep a log of jobs done ... I'm not sure if it counts pages, but perhaps not (:D because printer files are not simple strings of printable characters, with a formfeed character every so often to separate pages.) I'm sitting at a computer (in Public Library) which prints to a shared printer, and uses a connected magnetic card reader which deducts 20c per page printed from the card. :D The software is a commercial product. So it's around. Universities and schools use charging softawre for their pupils too. You could sell blank paper at x cents/page :D |
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