Hi all, Our organisation plans to roll out duplex printing to users using existing printers (HP8100). I have set up another set of print queues for duplex printing so that we can better keep the statistics and work out some schemes to encourage users to use duplex printing, i.e., one physical printer shared by two print queues (one for simplex printing, one for duplex printing).
On testing the environment, we encountered a print accounting problem. Our print accounting scripts utilize ifhp to get the page counter from the printer and work well most of the time. On encountering problem with getting the print job pagecount, our script will save a copy of current print status (username and counter) to a file and will bill back the user on next print job. This works pretty well with a printer and a simplex queue as the page counter should not be altered until the next print job is printing. For two print queues sharing a printer, this would cause problem as the print counter will keep on changing with print jobs on counterpart queue (simple/duplex). Is there anyone implemented similar configuration without problem (2 queues sharing a printer accounting problem) or is there elegant way to tell whether a print job is duplex if using a single print queue for both simplex and duplex? Thanks for your help. KC Chang ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
