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by johan_van_schalkwyk 1 view

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We are running a Win 2000 Server enviroment and are currently changing all our printers to IP. If I have a printing I need to manage, for example I want to know who sent the print , what is the filename and how many pages it is. How do I monitor thequeue? I have tried HP Jetadmin, Markvision, OKIview32 and serveral others, but none of them give me that information. Do I need third party software or are there any Wimdows solution?

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by gigelul

I speak about WinNT4.0 Server but in Win2000 must be the same.
On Print Server in you have all print jobs with all details you need. For a easy preview/management you can built your own tool based on system events. Using from resorce kit you can export these events to a text file. Importing this text file in excell or access you can filter or query. Also with task scheduler you can automate this tool.

by johan_van_schalkwyk

We do not print through a printserver. I spoke to someone from OKI and he said that you will need third party software to manage printing.

by curlergirl

On your print server, open the Printers folder and click File/Server Properties. On the Advanced tab, you have three logging options for spooler error, warning and information events. If you enable the check box for information events, you'll get a System log entry for each print job that contains the information you are looking for. You can then filter and export the log if you need to massage the information further. Hope this helps!

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