Source: printbill
Section: text
Priority: extra
Maintainer: Daniel Franklin <d.franklin@ieee.org>
Build-Depends: debhelper, libpng2-dev | libpng3-dev | libpng12-dev, gettext
Standards-Version: 3.5.2

Package: printbill
Architecture: any
Depends: gs (>= 6.53), gsfonts, exim | mail-transport-agent, perl, lprng | cupsys, debconf (>= 1.2.9), perl-modules, magicfilter, liblocale-gettext-perl, ${shlibs:Depends}
Recommends: apache
Suggests: samba, smbclient, gnuplot
Description: Sophisticated print billing / accounting system for lprng
 Printbill calculates the amount of ink/toner and the number of pages used
 when printing a document. It uses ghostscript to convert postscript files
 into PNG bitmaps, then calls percentblack or percentcolour to determine the
 percentage coverage. Prices may be independently set for each printer, with
 set rates for black and colour ink/toner and per-page. Bill calculation is
 quite CPU intensive so printbill allows multiple concurrent billing
 processes to be executed - jobs may not be printed in the order in which
 they are sent to the queue. On SMP systems printbill will happily make use
 of all processors if so instructed. Printbill can bill before or after
 printing, or can be configured to only perform accounting. It is possible
 to bill based only on pagecount, but although it is much faster, it is easy
 to fool and is not recommended.
 .
 Users pre-pay a quota and this is automatically decremented as they print -
 alternatively one may just do per-user and per-printer accounting with no
 billing. Various mechanisms exist for generating a quote. Printbill also
 keeps detailed statistics on printing habits which may be of interest to
 administrators. The system may be managed via either a command-line
 application or via a convenient web interface (for non-tech people).
