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05/08/05 00:04:37 (20 years ago)
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Greatly improved pkprinters' documentation

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    77  <para> 
    8     <filename>pkprinters</filename> is now the preferred tool to manage printers in <application>PyKota</application>.   
     8    <filename>pkprinters</filename> is the preferred tool to manage printers in <application>PyKota</application>.   
    99    It only manages printers, and do it well. With it you can add or delete printers or printer groups, or modify 
    1010    existing printers or printers groups. This is also the tool to use to put printers into one or more printers groups. 
    1111  </para>   
     12   
     13  <para> 
     14    The very first thing you have to do once <application>PyKota</application> is installed but before it can work,  
     15    is to add into <application>PyKota</application>'s database an entry for each of the print queues on 
     16    which you want to have print quota or accounting. 
     17  </para> 
     18   
     19  <para> 
     20    Let's say your printing system has several print queues defined : <literal>HP2100</literal>, <literal>TekTro</literal>, 
     21    and <literal>StylusColor1</literal> and <literal>StylusColor2</literal>. You want to charge 5 cents per page on each of this print queues. 
     22    You just have to type : 
     23<screen>     
     24$ pkprinters --add --charge 0.05 HP2100 TekTro StylusColor1 StylusColor2 
     25</screen> 
     26    <warning><title>Warning</title> 
     27      <para>Printers' names in PyKota are case-sensitive, so be careful to use the exact names 
     28            exposed by your printing system. 
     29      </para> 
     30    </warning> 
     31  </para> 
     32   
     33  <para> 
     34    After some minutes, you think that you should charge more on the <literal>StylusColor1</literal>  
     35    and <literal>StylusColor2</literal> because they can do color.  
     36    You also want to enter a description for these printers, because you have several 
     37    of them : 
     38<screen>     
     39$ pkprinters --charge 0.25 "StylusColor*" 
     40$ pkprinters --description "Stylus Color 900 First floor" StylusColor1 
     41$ pkprinters --description "Stylus Color 900 Second floor" StylusColor2 
     42</screen> 
     43  </para> 
     44   
     45  <para> 
     46    You can now verify what you did : 
     47<screen>     
     48$ pkprinters --list 
     49HP2100 [] (0.0 + #*0.05) 
     50TekTro [] (0.0 + #*0.05) 
     51StylusColor1 [Stylus Color 900 First floor] (0.0 + #*0.25) 
     52StylusColor2 [Stylus Color 900 Second floor] (0.0 + #*0.25) 
     53</screen> 
     54  </para> 
     55   
     56  <para> 
     57    The command above has listed all print queues present in <application>PyKota</application>'s database, 
     58    along with their optional description and their base cost formula.  
     59    The cost formula includes the price per job, <literal>0.0</literal> in our examples, 
     60    and the price per page (<literal>#</literal> representing the number of pages). 
     61  </para> 
     62   
     63  <para> 
     64    If you defined printers groups, then the total cost is computed as the recursive 
     65    sum of the printing cost on the current printer plus all the printers groups it 
     66    is a member of. In addition, each user can have an overcharging (or undercharging) 
     67    factor, by which the total printing cost will be multiplied to determine the real 
     68    cost of printing on a particular printer for a particular user. 
     69  </para> 
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    1371  <sect1>