Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: postscript accounting Message-ID: <45598542@bfmny0.BFM.COM> Date: 10 Mar 91 03:54:45 GMT References: Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) Distribution: comp Lines: 13 In article yxoc@cs.uni-sb.de (Ralf Treinen) writes: >We are going to buy a postscript printer and would like to monitor the >usage of the printer. For this purpose we would like to have a tool that >is able to count the pages of a postscript file. Does this make any sense >to you? Can you tell me how to write/get such a thing? If the goal is to monitor _over-all_ use of the printer, then just buy something that prints a page count as part of its self-test status report. The latest generation of laser printers mostly do this. If you need to do it _per user_, it's a tougher task. If the printer interface is serial or bidirectional parallel, you could hack the spooler to actually ask the printer for its pagecount after every job.