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From: zlcbeowen@qut.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Novell Print Charging (was <None>)
Message-ID: <8337.25fe6351@qut.edu.au>
Date: 14 Mar 90 15:29:21 GMT
Organization: Queensland University of Technology
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Hamish Marson writes:

>I'm looking for a package that will sit on my Novell network & charge users
>for the number of pages that they print on a particular printer.

So am I!  I considered writing one myself, but it ended up in the too hard
basket.  A general purpose package would need a seperate driver for each
different printer on the network to be able to parse data sent through the
print queues and calculate page breaks (not just count form-feeds).  Handling 
graphics could be a little tricky.  At this stage, we're only interested in 
charging usage on an HP Laserjet II.  Anyone care to write something ... ?

>PS. We're having problems with downloadable fonts and out laserjet II printer
>    ie they don;t work. We're having to download them from a workstation then
>    reconnect the printer to the fileserver. Any opinions?

2 common problems with downloadable fonts:
	1 - Make sure you have the "file contents" set to "Byte stream" in
		the job specification (set with PRINTCON).  Otherwise, Netware
		may interpret some of the font data as control characters.  I
		don't know of a way to do this from the CAPTURE command line.
	2 - If you use PRINTCON jobs, you will probably have a reset sequence
		at the end of the job, so the font will be cleared and need to
		downloaded again for the next job.

Chris Owen
Library
Queensland University of Technology