Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (81 mails)

[Chris Puttick <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If there is no OS Linux solution yet, I have a couple of questions:

Q1 Anyone up for developing one? Funded?

Q2 Anyone want to chip in towards the development costs?

Cheers

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Grainge,  Derek
To: Colin Davies; suse-linux-uk-schools@xxxxxxxx
Sent: 1/16/03 6:06 PM
Subject: RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Printer control software

My school has it working under NT; and I have to say I am not really all
that impressed.   It has miscounted costs, and we have had to force it
to recount pages to rectify this.   It will report student's balances
and you can provide them with credit, and optionally refuse to print
when the system goes in the red.   You can bill pupils or parents later.

My feeling is that billing later misses the point: which is to prevent
little gremlins from wasting printouts in the first place.

As far as credit is concerned, if you decide to prevent printing when
the balance hits zero, you will get queues of kids whinging about their
balances - and this will impose a considerable burden on the small
number (one?) of people who are asked to administer the system: a
bottleneck.

Pcounter's website mentions a machine you can install near a printer.
This allows pupils who are over-limit  to identify jobs and put money in
to pay for them.   The machine itself isn't cheap and I think it's
windows only. 
There must be better than this?   What do others have to say?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Davies [mailto:colinidavies@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 16 January 2003 17:52
> To: suse-linux-uk-schools@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Printer control software
> 
> 
> I found out about a print control program called
> Pcounter at Bett. Although it is intended for NT
> (excuse my language)It does work on Linux with samba
> running. However getting it to work without using an
> extra computer with NT is causing problems. Our
> current bill for printing consumables is approaching
> £10K and this seems a promising solution to the
> multiple printing.
> 
> Has anyone got Pcounter or any other print control
> software working under Linux?
> 
> Colin Davies
> Meadows Community School
> Chesterfield
> 
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