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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.
NO one. wow
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 site.
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.
Thanx BobS0327, but hooking printer driver seems a possible solution. Thankx hoxsiew.
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