On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Vidiot wrote:
> > Requirement: I need to install laser printers in several student
> > labs. The Dept. has decided that students must pay for this service.
> > So I'm looking for software that runs on Linux and will allow
> > printing from both Linux and NT machines (dual boot). It must allow
> > us to charge the students beforehand, in some manner, for usage
> > rather than try to charge them later. Any suggestions either Open
> > Source or commercial appreciated.
> > Tony
>
> If you are going to charge by the page, you have to charge after printing,
> because you cannot tell ahead of time how many pages will be printed.
>
> What you really need is a cash advance system, i.e., the student puts money
> into an account. After the job is printed, you charge the account. If
> the account goes over, you just have to collect more.
>
> I'm sure there are other ways to collect, but collecting before printing is
> impossible.
>
> MB
>
That is the idea. Students would buy so many page credits in some form
beforehand and after each printjob their credits would be deducted
depending on the number of pages they printed.
The University actually has a system which does this. The problem is
it runs on NT and is not compatible with Linux. So to print students
have to save their files to disk and reboot to NT. I'm sure there
must be some university which has solved this problem :-)
Tony.
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