pay per sheet printing software

[jbob]

I am doing some work for a local public library and they would like to implement some type of pay per sheet solution for the printers. They have looked into the coinboxes and that is a little out of their buget at the moment (they are a small town library, population <1000). They have 4 Win XP Pro machines and 3 Win98 machines all logging on to a Window 2000 domain, cable modem w/ Cisco PIX firewall for internet. They have 2 network printers, one is an HP Color Laserjet w/built in jet direct. The other is a laserjet 2200 on a USB print server (I know, ISH, I didn't set it up). I was wondering if there was some software available that would sit on the server and moniter the printers and if it notices that a job is coming from a specific user, it would pop a message on one of the staff machines prompting them to accept money, then click a button to send the print job to the printer. Does something like this exist, or are the coin boxes the only choice?

Thanks

 

[cmetz]

jbob, I don't know of any software to solve this problem. It seems to me that an easier solution is to put the printers behind a desk or somewhere the staff has to pick up the print-outs, and that makes it easy for them to trade paper for money.

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: cmetz
jbob, I don't know of any software to solve this problem. It seems to me that an easier solution is to put the printers behind a desk or somewhere the staff has to pick up the print-outs, and that makes it easy for them to trade paper for money.

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