> We have had 2 Tek Phaser printers, a 560 and now a 750. The 560 > sort of worked with the AppSocket (ie. ports 9100/9101) protocol, > but timed out a lot. The 750 always gave me wrong page numbers. > After futtsing around a bunch with the 750, I tried using the LPR > port. It seems to work fine and is fast. I don't know if this > is the same on the 740, but on the 750 you can set the printer to > send the server an eMail for each job with how many pages were > printed on what medium and the amount of toner used, along with > the user name. This lets us do quite accurate accounting.
There is a "job pipelining" option on the newer Phaser printers (7XX/8XX) that should be turned off to get accurate AppSocket page counts. Otherwise, it accepts the job, acts as if the job has printed when in reality it's still buffered in the printer. Those page counts are accurate when the query is submitted, but they are not for the complete job. In an ideal world where page accounting doesn't matter, this yields higher page throughput. -- ============================================================================ John Perkins | University of Wisconsin-Madison Associate Researcher | Department of Computer Science [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1210 W. Dayton St. 608-262-0438/608-262-9997 FAX | Madison, WI 53706-1685 ============================================================================ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
