On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Al Marquardt wrote:
> Hello all:
>
> We're wondering if anyone has had any luck doing to-the-tray accounting on
> a Xerox Phaser 7700. We love the printer and are preparing to buy a few. To
> help justify the cost, we'd like to stock multiple media types in each
> printer; letter, tabloid, transparency, glossy. Since each media type
> and/or size will have greatly differing costs associated with it, it would
> be essential to be able to discern exactly what kind of page the user
> printed. Either the media type or the tray number would be adequate. Of
> course, the vendor is not able to answer any questions in this regard.
>
> I would love to hear any success and/or failure stories of any kind
> regarding this printer.
We are using the Phaser 7700 printer here (wow, very nice printer).
I don't know of any way to determine the tray number or media type that
the final job came out of. To my knowledge, there are no hooks in
lprng/ifhp for that kind of accounting.
However, let me suggest a different approach. We allow printing on two
type of media: plain paper and transparencies. We use a different lprng
queue for each one, then we can charge different rates based on the name
of the queue.
In our computer lab environment, jobs for the Phaser 7700 are released to
the printer by a lab consultant. So the user comes up to the desk and
says, "I've got a color job to print" or "I've got a print job on
transparencies". The consultant then looks at the appropriate queue and
releases the job.
If you don't have a human to control the job releasing, you could get
users who print to the color queue but select transparency in the printer
control panel.
Hope this helps...
Andy
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