Wow, too many things brining bad memories back today. 
In a past life  I had the same negative experience trying to get a
pagecount back from and Apple Laser writer printer. After many hours of
tooling with it and reading documentation front to back, I ended up
calling Apple about this little gem of theirs, no luck. As far as I can
remember it was something to do with non-standard bi-directional
communication. Possibly someone on this board got this to work somewhere
along the way but after many-o-hours on this problem, the printer went
into the *not to be used with lprng* group and a solution was never found. 

Please do advise if you get it working properly. 

Thanks,

Phil Moses

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Rabellino Sergio wrote:

> Dear list,
>  we have an old LaserWriter 12/640 (Postscript - Lan) printer and we're using ihfp 
>to communicate with the raw port of the printer.
> The printing is ok, but we coulnd't get the pagecount (always null); as we are 
>accounting every job to charge to the owner the pages
> printed, this is an important feature.
> 
> Anyone has resolved this problem ?
> 
> .... printcap is following ...
> 
> --snip--
> ric3
> :server
> :cm=Apple LaserWriter 12/640
> :filter=/opt/LPRng/libexec/filters/ifhp
> :ifhp=model=apple,status=ps,sync=ps,pagecount=ps,waitend=ps
> :lp=raw@laserdip
> :mx=0
> :prefix_z=600,a4,portrait,simplex
> :ps=status
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P
> :sh
> --snip--
> 
> Another question on lpd.perms:
> 
> We want that the owner of a job can delete the job from every machine, is this the 
>way?
> 
> --snip--
> ....omissis
> # allow same user on every host to remove a job
> ACCEPT SERVICE=M SAMEUSER
> # allow root on server to remove a job
> ACCEPT SERVICE=M SERVER REMOTEUSER=root
> REJECT SERVICE=M
> 
> DEFAULT ACCEPT
> --snip--
> 
> Now if I try to delete a job from an host (not as root) I receive a "no permission" 
>.... :-(
> Thanks.
> -- 
> Dott. Sergio Rabellino 
> 
>  Technical Staff
>  Department of Computer Science
>  University of Torino (Italy)
>  Member of the Internet Society
> 
> http://www.di.unito.it/~rabser
> Tel. +39-0116706701
> Fax. +39-011751603
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