So, I have a Dymo label printer hooked up through a printserver. Because the
Dymo client only recognizes NetBios-styles printer selection, I've created a
print queue on a Unix box (506) which uses Netcat with a minimalist print
script. [Dymo tech support claims that the only p/s they support is the HP
175x, but netcat means never having to say you're sorry. :-)] Wonderful. Then
today, a clueless user sent a regular print job to the label printer (the
client software insists on installing the labelwriter as a Windows printer; I
don't think I can remove it without harming the label process) and ate up a
whole bunch of labels, at 3.5 cents each. Ouch.

So, I'm wondering if there is a quick and dirty way in the interface script to
arbitrarily chop the print job at, say, 5k or so.

NYZ

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Nachman Yaakov Ziskind typed (on Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 06:22:43PM -0400):
| So, I have a Dymo label printer hooked up through a printserver. Because the
| Dymo client only recognizes NetBios-styles printer selection, I've created a
| print queue on a Unix box (506) which uses Netcat with a minimalist print
| script. [Dymo tech support claims that the only p/s they support is the HP
| 175x, but netcat means never having to say you're sorry. :-)] Wonderful. Then
| today, a clueless user sent a regular print job to the label printer (the
| client software insists on installing the labelwriter as a Windows printer; I
| don't think I can remove it without harming the label process) and ate up a
| whole bunch of labels, at 3.5 cents each. Ouch.
|
| So, I'm wondering if there is a quick and dirty way in the interface script to
| arbitrarily chop the print job at, say, 5k or so.
|

Run wc -c against the sixth argument to the interface script.

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