how to retrieve info about print jobs

[guy lateur]

Perhaps I should mention this: we have printers from HP, and they come with 
a tool called JetDirect. This allows you to browse to it and check it's 
status/stats. Maybe I should write something that automatically gathers the 
info from the printer homepage. Would that be a good/easy way to go about 
it?

Alternatively, I could send the info about a user's print jobs from their 
individual pc to a central 'database', and then get it from there.

Just brainstorming out loud, here..


"Guy Lateur" <guy.lateur at b-b.be> schreef in bericht 
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> Hmm, this only seems to work for jobs that originate on the machine 
> running the script. I really need something that actually gathers the info 
> from the printers (net-based). Would that be possible at all?
>