Re: AW: printing soln

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 17/08/2008, at 2:31 AM, BirgittaHauser wrote:

> I activated the accounting journal copied the collected information  
> into a
> physical file and run queries over the result.
> But our client uses around 300 remote outqueues and for remote  
> outqueues
> printed pages are not counted within the accounting journal, that  
> means the
> number of pages is always zeros!!!

I guess that's reasonable. The local system isn't actually "printing"  
the spooled file therefore there is no "cost" to be charged back (Job  
accounting's primary purpose). The actual "print" function is  
performed at the remote system so the "cost" of printing  
(consumables) should be determined there. Admittedly, this seems to  
make little sense when the remote system *IS* the printer but I can  
see why it works this way.

> If not all pages are printed one page gets missed, that means if  
> you print
> page 3 to page 5 only 2 pages are counted (instead of 3!!!)


That seems like a defect to me and should be reported with repeatable  
test cases.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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