Hi there!

I have a problem with querying the pagecounter of a hp8000-printer with ifhp: I always get a pagecount of 0.

With a little tool 'qpc' I am able to query the counter of the hp8000, and the ifhp-pagecount also worked correctly with a hp5m printer and the

same ifhp-options.

I noticed that there are no entries like 'sync done' and 'end of job detected' in the status-file, like it does with the hp5m printer.
Everything is accomplished within 1 second, whereas with the hp5m it took about 30 seconds from sync to end of job.
I've also run ifhp-diagnostics to make sure that the status-, sync-, pageount- and waitend-flags are set at runtime.


I have ifhp v3.5.7-2 and lprng v3.8.10-1.2 installed.

/etc/printcap:
pergament|PS;r=600x600;q=medium;c=gray;p=a4;m=auto:\
    :lp=:\
    :rm=129.69.35.101:\
    :rp=raw:\
    :ifhp=model=hp8000:\
    :filter=/usr/lib/ifhp/ifhp -Zpaper=a4 \
        -Taccounting=/var/spool/lpd/acct.sh:\
    :sd=/var/spool/lpd/pergament:\
    :lf=/var/spool/lpd/pergament/log:\
    :af=/var/spool/lpd/pergament/acct:\
    :mx#0:\
    :sh:

/var/spool/lpd/pergament/status:
using model 'hp8000' at 11:43:14.474
setting up printer at 11:43:14.478
pagecounter 0 at 11:43:14.478
started ACCOUNTING- 'acct.sh' at 11:43:14.479
sending job file at 11:43:14.582
starting transfer at 11:43:14.582
initial job type 'POSTSCRIPT' at 11:43:14.583
decoded job type 'POSTSCRIPT' at 11:43:14.583
job type 'POSTSCRIPT' at 11:43:14.583
transferring 394468 bytes at 11:43:14.583
25 percent done at 11:43:14.590
51 percent done at 11:43:14.596
77 percent done at 11:43:14.602
sent job file at 11:43:14.607
pagecounter 0, pages 0 at 11:43:14.608
started ACCOUNTING- 'acct.sh' at 11:43:14.610
done at 11:43:14.854

Any help would be appreciated,

Timm Pieper



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