Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!seismo!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!kannel!huopio From: huopio@lut.fi (Kauto Huopio OH5LFM) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: Charging for laser printer use. Message-ID: Date: 6 Feb 91 20:43:48 GMT References: <1991Feb1.105657.3329@ducvax.auburn.edu> <9287@uwm.edu> Sender: huopio@lut.fi (Kauto Huopio OH5LFM) Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: shaub@vacs.uwp.wisc.edu's message of 2 Feb 91 19:23:53 GMT Disclaimer: Opinions expressed below are writers own. Peruutus: Mielipiteet ovat omiani. > We use the Vendacard system very succssfully in our public lab. > The VC unit attaches to innards of the laser printer and tricks it into thinking > it's out of toner. Before sending a print job, you insert a card with a magnetic strip into the VC unit. On the cards strip is credit recorded by a seperate > machine. When you send your print job, the VC unit takes 2 units of credit > per page (Ithink this is custumizable) and allows the printer to do it's thing. Well, I suppose that this system can't be used with a networked printer like DEC LPS-20. It would be nice to have a some kind of "smart card" -system to look whose print job is in turn.. But LPS-20 _has_ a two-way connection, (if I am correct) so it would be quite easy to do this?? --Kauto -- ****************** Kauto Huopio (huopio@kannel.lut.fi) ********************** * Mail: Kauto Huopio, Punkkerikatu 1 A 10, SF-53850 Lappeenranta,Finland * *****************************************************************************