Printers stuff

[Iraq]

Hi,
The challenge is to know the number of print jobs ( number of pages printed ) completed by a particular PC during the day,taking into consideration that printer attached can be a LAN printer a parallel port printer or any other type or there can be more then 1 printers attached through all the available modes. Also it is possible that some print commands are canceled.
Any help ? How to go about it ?
Thanks.

[Iraq]

NO one. wow

[BobS0327]

You may want to consider Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) which will allow you to query a printer for the page count.

Take a look at this (http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/) site.

[hoxsiew]

I think the OP wants to determine a page count per user on a network. To implement this on a client's machine would require hooking the print driver on each machine and sending the statistics to some other server or keeping a log (that can be checked later) on each PC. Perhaps SNMP can determine this information; I don't know.

I think a better approach would be to use logging on the print server. Most TCPIP print servers have logging capabilities which can probably accomplish most or all of the OP's needs.

[Iraq]

Thanx BobS0327, but hooking printer driver seems a possible solution. Thankx hoxsiew.

[BobS0327]

Just another suggestion. You may want to take a look at this code for a printer monitor utility. Maybe you can modify it to meet your requirements.

Here's the Link (http://cboard.cprogramming.com/windows-programming/108156-virtual-printer-moving-printjobs.html)