> > What I wrote will query the printer for page count before and afterthe > > job. > > We tried that also, however, then you have problems if printerjobs > are cancelled halfway.
For us it is OK to forget to count a job from time to time, as the filter queries the printer before and after, the next job will start a new count anyway. > Also, the "sanity" check works against accepting print jobs that > will cause the the printer to print endless pages with strange > characters untill it runs out of paper or the job is cancelled. We > had a lot of those because of misconfigured windows machines. Well, I have my guy install the printers on the machines for the users, so they use the right driver :) Olivier _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"