The free version is the same as the $25 version. The $25 version is packaged nicer. Think srpm vs. rpm from RedHat but not as complicated.<br><br>It's not clear that the $25 is a one-time-fee-for-life :-) <br><br>I forked over the $$ years ago and was very impressed. Somewhere in my email is my access data....<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 9:13 AM, John Heim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@johnheim.net">john@johnheim.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I saw pykota but immediately ignored it because they want $25 for it. I also<br>
looked at the jasmine web site but it said the latest version was from 2006.<br>
<br>
So I'm in the process of trying the free version of pykota that you can<br>
download via svn. I'm not intimidated by trying to compile something but I<br>
am suspicious that the free version might be quirky because the author would<br>
have a disincentive to make it friendly. So we will see.<br>
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> <a href="http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.4/accounting.html" target="_blank">http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.4/accounting.html</a> is the<br>
> theoretical "master page". And yes, it's very unsatisfying.<br>
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> The 3rd-party app pykota does amazing print management.<br>
> <a href="http://www.pykota.com/" target="_blank">http://www.pykota.com/</a><br>
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> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:58 PM, John Heim <<a href="mailto:john@johnheim.net">john@johnheim.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> I have been googling for days and from what I can figure, print<br>
>> accounting<br>
>> is nearly impossible in cups. There doesn't seem to be a way to call a<br>
>> script right before the job is sent to a printer and then again right<br>
>> after.<br>
>> If I could do that, I could use snmp to get the page count. There is a<br>
>> page_log file but that doesn't say whether the pages printed were color<br>
>> or<br>
>> b/w.<br>
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>> Anybody have any idea how print accounting is done with cups?<br>
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