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Printer Page Counting by User/Account

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by tshumake

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We are trying to monitor our User's printing using PCounter under Windows NT network. This software will not work for a QMS MagiColor II DeskLaser. Does anyone know of a good product for monitoring and tracking print jobs/pages/accounts?

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by duwaned

There is a software company called Codework which have a product called Printer Accounting server. I have used this product before, and it works fairly well. A demo version can be downloaded from the following address:
http://www.codework.com/pas/index.htm

There are many other products available that will do the same thing, but this is the only one that I have had experience with.

I hope this helps.
Regards.
Duwane

by bhrdwh

Prints Accounting Server is good but costly. If using NT 4.0 Server as your print server, ou could also check on the "Event Log" to determine who gave the prints, what time & how many - all info for free.
Akash

by estebandelatorre

You will have to "spool the job" first into the NT queue in order to get some counters. (not sure if you can do this with this printer)
If you make your clients print directly to the port, bypassing windows, there will be no way on detecting printed pages.

Just an idea...

by tshumake

thanks for the try. yes i am spooling through nt. the problem is that this printer uses the gdi printer language and there are no software that will provide page counting at the server level when using this language.

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