On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Henrik Edlund wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Johan Bengtsson wrote:
>
> JB> I see you mention the software method, then you mention two methods
> JB> (PJL + SNMP) that interacts with the hardware counter on the printer.
> JB> It's possible to do that with PS commands as well - that should
> JB> definitely be mentioned.
>
> What are these PS commands then and do you an URL?
>From ifhp.conf:
## PageCount
## This is a very nasty piece of PostScript that will
## get the current pagecount value out of the statusdict
## Note: you really should use the PS Level 3 if you have it
## Note: some printers INSIST on ignoring the startjob stuff,
## and will report the current pagecount. You sometimes need
## to sit in a loop and wait until it stops changing.
## See pagecount_interval
ps_pagecount_code=
%!PS-Adobe-2.0
## for PS Level 3 add:
# false 0 startjob pop
/p{print}def ( %%[ pagecount: ) p
statusdict begin pagecount end 20 string cvs p
( ]%% ) p () = flush
-Johan Bengtsson
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