On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Jerome Alet wrote:

JA> On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:12:37PM +0100, Henrik Edlund wrote:
JA> >
JA> > Most printers on the market today support the two MIBs needed, so this
JA> > method seems to be the best option. The same general implementation would
JA> > work with several printer models from different manufacturers, as long as
JA> > the printer supports SNMP and mentioned MIBs properly.
JA>
JA> Most (all ?) HP printers' internal counter is only updated in NVRAM
JA> every 10 impressions (pages), if you switch your printer Off at
JA> count=19, it restarts at count=10

Does this relate to PJL only or SNMP also? Because I tested with the
following HP printers, and it works great, it counts up for every
impressions just as it should with SNMP:

   HP LaserJet 2100TN, HP LaserJet 4300, HP LaserJet 5M

JA> Also some HP printers reset their counter to 0 every time they are
JA> switched off.

Can anyone else confirm this? Do you have an online reference of this fact
documented somewhere?

JA> This sucks !

Indeed.

JA> <plug mode="shameless">
JA>
JA>   PyKota, my print quota and accounting solution, can use ANY
JA>   method of your choice to retrieve a job size.
JA>
JA> </plug>

<rant mode="shameless">

   Too bad it is written in Python.

</rant>     :-)

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