You can use a paper counter. Do some googling and you will find a suitable model such as
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I would like to -put a stack of papers into my printer, and then run (i.e.print - nothing, just output blank pages) and possibly the pc screen could display the number of pages that passed thru the printer. Is there a way of achieving this, as it beats the back of counting the stack of papers.
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GrahamSkan, has captured the problem accurately, but alas is there a solution. Can we send to print as blank paper and then display on the screen the count as it passes through the printer. I am sure someone out there must have done it. This is the type of solution that i am looking for.
Amila_Hendahewa's solution is also doable but at a cost, i have always had to challenge the weight differentials whenever i go to do any bulk mailing, where I weigh each piece at a Post Office, but when presenting the mail at the Bulk Mail Unit that uses old antiquated machines, the weight is challenged either upwards or downwards. But this is a different story.
Here's a thought.
How about creating a word document containing one tiny 6pt dot formatted to white, or in the lightest grey at a place where it is most likely to be printed over when the paper is re-used. Create a Word Macro that does this and save your document as "Paper Counter.doc" to do this any time you want.
File > Print and set it to an outrageously high number such as "999999" in the "Number of Copies" field. My printer has a limit of "32767" and a paper tray that probably only takes a third of a ream of A4 80gsm paper, so there's no way on this earth I could squeeze even 3200 sheets of paper in there, let alone 32000.
Just print, and when the paper runs out you should see the print progress indicator reflecting the number of pages that it managed to print before running out of paper. You may have to change your printer's spooling settings for this to work, or else you will have no print jobs to cancel and you would have to keep reloading paper until your bogus "number of copies" has been reached.
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Hello again jegajothy. Not sure if you will get this notification so long after the question was closed, but I thought you may be interested in something else. I was dowloading a couple of the most recently updated free programs by Karen Kenworthy and remembered one of her programs that might be useful. I have never had the need to use her "Print Logger" program, but you may wish to check out what kind of log it creates.
http://www.karenware.com/p
It says that it logs each print "job", and so I assume that it probably includes the number of pages printed. If so, then using the method I suggested in the accepted answer, perhaps you could run a batch file or similar to parse the log file for the number of pages it printed last.
Just a thought.
Bill
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by: GrahamSkanPosted on 2009-10-24 at 12:08:22ID: 25653779
It's an interesting idea, but has several unexpected snags.
Firstly, the print job examines the content and doesn't launch a session if there is nothing to print.
Secondly, the print job does not report back to the launching application, so if it runs out of paper, the application doesn't know about it.