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From: bcripe@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Brian E. Cripe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Accounting software for printers
Message-ID: <101950062@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 16 Nov 89 23:48:46 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> 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.

I seriously doubt whether you will be able to get this information
back from either LaserJet or RuggedWriter.  I wrote some of the firmware
that is in RuggedWriter and I can't think of any trick to make this
happen.  (Well you could hand feed it paper one sheet at a time and 
catch and count the number of times it reports out of paper).

I think your best bet is to do the counting on the host as it is sending
the data to the printer.  "wc -l" should give you a good start.

	Brian Cripe