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.
If this is anything like the older Tek/Xerox Phaser 750, you can get it to send you an eMail for each print job with excruciating detail about everything: -------------------- eMail from Phaser 750 ------------------- Printer EDV Tek 750 (EDV-Raum, Physiol.Institut, Uni-Goettingen) (J2G0490) job 598 finished Tektronix Job Report Printer Name : EDV Tek 750 Job Id : 598 / LPR, (stdin), cfA885tonne.neuro-ph, daemon, tonne.neuro-physiol. Finished at : Thu Mar 08 09:35:04 2001 Duration (mins): 1.2 Media Class : Paper Media Size : A4 Unique Pages : 1 Copies : 1 Total Pages : 1 Coverage (%) : Cyan: 6.2, Magenta: 5.8, Yellow: 9.5, Black: 1.9 Supplies Usage : Cyan: 0.014175, Magenta: 0.013368, Yellow: 0.021915, Black: 0.003632 Pixels Printed (1K): Cyan: 1932, Magenta: 1822, Yellow: 2987, Black: 594 END Tektronix Job Report -------------------end of eMail --------------------------------- It tells you the media class (paper, transparency, etc.) which is coded on the drawer with metal strips (so it doesn't depend on which slot you put the drawer in) and the number of pages. It also tells you how much of each color was used. I used the LPR port for this, and if you set it up right you get the user ID instead of (stdin) as above. Good luck, -- Howard -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Phys. Howard Schultens Tel: +49 551 39-5914 Zentrum Physiologie FAX: +49 551 39-5923 Humboldtallee 23 37073 Goettingen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Germany http://www.neuro-physiol.med.uni-goettingen.de -------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
