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From: winborne@physics.unc.edu (George Winborne)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Query on LaserWriter accounting
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Date: 14 Nov 90 15:27:35 GMT
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Organization: Dept of Physics & Astronomy - UNC-CH
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We have a FastPath4 bridging Macs and Suns on Localtalk and Ether 
respectively.  We are using aufs and papif and trying to get lwsrv to work.

How can we keep track of LaserWriter usage efficiently.  Our printing is 
climbing rapidly and we want to see who prints so much and maybe consider 
billing for pages.  I know Unix can track serially connected printers and 
papif can track the jobs it sends to our Appletalked Lasers.  Is there any 
way to keep accounts on jobs sent by our Macs to Lasers just hanging off 
the Localtalk.  Do we have to connect all the printers to a Unix box to 
get accounting? I don't know anything about Apple's Appleshare/Interpoll 
utilities.  Do any of these things have print accounting?  What about 
third party or archived utilities?
I can summarize answers sent directly to me to the Net.
Thanks!

George Winborne
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
University Of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3255