printbill_grapher - check your print quota

printbill_grapher --path <path> [--fraction <fraction>] [--slices <slices>] [--printer <printer>] [--force] [--help]

printbill_grapher performs statistical analysis of the stats file for the specified printer, displays maximum, minimum, mean, standard deviation and median for each parameter on standard output, and generates a set of graphs showing the frequency distribution of key parameters plus the temporal distribution of printer load (measured by page count) averaged over four different time scales (past week, past month, past year and forever). Output files are prefixed with "printer_" and are saved in the path specified on the command-line (or current working directory if not otherwise specified).

printbill_grapher requires a fully functional printbill installation, and all that that entails. You must also have a functional gnuplot installation with PNG support.

Please see the accompanying README file for installation instructions. Chances are if you're reading this it's correctly installed.

--path <path>

Specifies the directory where .PNG files for the varoius graphs will be written. Defaults to current working directory.

--fraction <fraction>

Only plot the <fraction> lowest values. Useful when you want to see a bit more detail of some very long-tailed distributions. Defaults to 1 (i.e. see everything).

--slices <slices>

Frequency histograms will use <slices> range bins. Defaults to 20.

--printer <printer>

Specify the printer whose stats you wish to analyse. Defaults to "lp".

--help

Prints usage message.

printbill and the accompanying utilities were written by Daniel Franklin (d.franklin@ieee.org). The web interface was written by Phil Ciufo (phil@snrc.uow.edu.au).

You can always grab the latest and greatest version from http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~daniel/software/printbill

/var/lib/printbill/printbill.db The database. It contains entries for the total pages printed and the total paid into the database.

printbill(1), printbill(8), printbilld(1), printbill_configure(8), percentblack(1), percentcolour(1), percent_cmy(1), pqcheck(1), printquote(1), printbill_printer(1), printbillrc(5), printcap(5), init_from_passwd(8), pqm(8).