10/16/97

We are progressing nicely with digital imaging and printing from our

microscopes. We have several networked printers that people are

using. I now need to be able to charge accordingly for the printouts

that people do. I am using WIN95 networking and NT4.0 server (and

Novell 3.12 but want to stay away from that for network printing if I

can). Is anyone using server software which will record which

printer was used, who used it and how many printouts they did?

NTserver event manager is sort of working but seems always to say 0

pages were printed.

If anyone has gone down this route I would appreciate some comments.

Raining again in Manchester!

Chris

Chris Gilpin

Biological Sciences Electron Microscope Unit

G452 Stopford Building

Oxford Road

Manchester

M13 9PT

phone +44 161 275 5170

fax +44 161 275 5171

http://www.biomed.man.ac.uk/biology/emunit/emhome.html

Windows NT 4.0 should be able to to maintain a log for printers. We

use NT 4.0 Workstation to record the user, the printer used, the name of

the document printed, and the number of pages. We charge for prints from

our TEK Phaser 440.

This is how to set it up to log.

1. Start>settings>printers

2. double click the name of the printer you want to audit

3. Select Printer from the menu>properties>security>auditing

4. Select Add, select the name of the group you want to audit (I just

select "Everyone"), select Add, then select OK, then select OK in the

Properties page.

5. In the Printers page, select File>Server properties>Advanced>Log

Spooler information events, then select OK.

6. Then restart the computer.

7. In the Event viewer in Administrative Tools it will record all print

events in the System Event log.

I have found NT to be a great operating system once you figure out what you

want to do. Hope this will help.

Stanley L. Flegler, Assistant Director

Center for Electron Optics

Michigan State University

US

flegler@pilot.msu.edu

I forgot one part of step 4. Step 4 should read: Select Add, select

the name of the group you want to audit (I just select "Everyone"), select

Add, then check Print Success, Failure, etc. as needed in the Printer

Auditing page, then select OK, then select OK in the Properties page.

Sorry for the confusion.