Printer accounting using CUPS page_log

This Tool generates statistics from the CUPS page_log file. You have to start it on the machine running the CUPS server.

Features

• Queue usage
• Pages per user per queue
• Jobsize histogram (all queues in one)
• Number of copies histogram (all queues in one)
• Jobs/Pages per hour (all queues in one)
• Jobs/Pages per day (all queues in one)
• Jobs/Pages per user (all queues in one)
• Pages per Billingcode (all queues in one)
• Pages per User per Billingcode (all queues in one)

Screenshot :)

Some output of PrintAnalyzer is here.

Setup

• Set the path to your page_log file in the PrintAnalyzer script
  should be in /var/log/cups/page_log
• Disable Log-Rotation in cupsd.conf
  set MaxLogSize 0

Changelog

25.07.2001 Handle the last job in the page_log file
08.04.2002 New feature: Billingcode and counting copies
11.02.2003 New feature: Pages per hour display full 24h ( not only active hours )
20.06.2003 New features: Pages per user per queue ( accounting ) and commandline argument for page_log file

Download

Goto savannah project page PrintAnalyzer

What is CUPS

More information about the Common Unix Printing System at its homepage www.cups.org