On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:31:47 +1100
Ashley Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd really appreciate feedback from any sites (universities in
> particular) who use lprng with accounting. How quickly do your
> jobs get printed? What printers do you use? What do you set
> your pagecount_poll_* settings to in ifhp.conf?
>
> As a benchmark to beat (should be easy!) I just tested one of our
> Lexmark T616's and printed 6 jobs (12 pages in total) in 5min13sec.
> This is with accurate pagecounting using the following settings:
>
> pagecount_poll_start=1
> pagecount_poll_end=6
> pagecount_poll_interval=5
>
> How much faster is printing with accounting at your site?
Just ran a test on some of our printers. I'm using a 110-line text file (run through
a2ps for text->PS conversion to guarantee 66 lines/page), in duplex mode. Job was
submitted 6 times (12 pages, 6 sheets of paper) for each printer
HP 4100DN: 2 min 22 sec
HP 8100DN: 3 min 4 sec
Xerox Phaser 5400: 1 min 10 sec
Printer settings:
pagecount_poll_start=1
pagecount_poll_end=2
pagecount_poll_interval=1
waitend and pagecount polls are performed via SNMP queries, not by PJL interrogation,
at our site. We needed to do this to deal with some of the quirks of the Phaser 5400;
the solution was trivial to adapt to the HP printers (when armed with SNMP MIBs) to
get accurate pagecounts from the LaserJet 4100 series printers.
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John Perkins | University of Wisconsin-Madison
Associate Researcher | Department of Computer Science
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1210 W. Dayton St.
608-262-0438/608-262-9997 FAX | Madison, WI 53706-1685
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