hello guys.. i am working a for a contracting company and the manager wanted a program that counts pages that were printed from each printer. coz we have alot of printers and we want to keep track of ink usage and i will do a database to store all this records is there any VB code that counts Printed pages??? thanx

The short answer is no. If you have a laser printer, many of them have status pages which you can print. The better network printers havs a built-in webserver which can display the pages printed as well as the amount of toner remaining. That said the page count is an unreliable indicator of the number of printed pages as an indicator of ink useage. The hypothetical standard page has less than 5% of ink coverage, a graphic rendering could use more than 50%, and a color picture could have more than 80% coverage. Unless you have a dedicated print server there is no way of getting the pagecount. The most practical way is to log the pagecount from the status page at intervals, or when the ink/toner cartridges are replaced as done with copiers.