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On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 18:34 +0800, Kai Hendry wrote: > Hi guys, > > Does anyone here have any experience of running a print server for a > large organisation? > > I was wondering if CUPs has all that quota / logging and user > management or which pieces of software typically fill that gap. > > I know at cs.helsinki.fi they didn't bother. ;) > > Many thanks, > I was a Kodak system eng. in a previous life, we ran Sun systems with a Kodak lpr system It had a deamon running looking at the print spooler and then Queued users jobs according to Paper size Color, Quality etc Cups has most of these things if you are prepared to tewak and perhaps write scripts to pull stuff out the logs you just have to remember to turn logging on! brfax 3372 shop [21/Aug/2012:15:53:33 +0100] 1 1 - localhost breadorder.ps adobe_A4_0x0mm - brfax 3373 shop [21/Aug/2012:17:12:26 +0100] 1 1 - localhost vegorder.ps adobe_A4_0x0mm - from my shops cups the page log gives you user date page origin file name you could squirt this to a database and have a web based interface! It's probably been done somewhere already. ________________________________________________________________________ Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) Skype minions_shop www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk FaceBook Minions_shop Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq