Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!maytag!vlsi!ccng!maxwell!gordon
From: gordon@maxwell.waterloo.edu (Gordon R. Strachan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Accounting software for printers
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Date: 13 Nov 89 14:16:47 GMT
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We, here at Waterloo, are running HP-UX 6.5 on a 319c+ workstation with
an HP laserjet II and a HP rugged writer printer attached to it.  We would
like to get some way of figuring out how many pages each user has printed
on each printer.  This would be easy to do except, there doesn't seem to be
anyway of getting either printer to tell the host how many pages it printed.
Am I missing something in the manuals?  Is there anyway to get either of
these printers tell me when a page was printed?  Barring that, is there any
command that will tell the laserjet to send a status byte, id string or
anything back to the host?  As near as I can tell the laserjet will never
talk back to the host computer.

Has anyone done this sort of thing before?  It seems to me it should be a very
basic operation.

Thank you in Advance

Gordon