Can I find out how many pages have been printed by a printer? (6 Solutions!!)
Channel: Roel Van de Paar
Date: 2020-08-19

Can I find out how many pages have been printed by a printer?


The Question: I want to know how many pages have been printed. Is there any way?
I am using Brother HL 5350DN.

Solutions: Please watch the whole video to see all solutions, in order of how many people found them helpful

Do a print test, which prints out a page with information on drum life, pages
printed etc. The print test option can be accessed by going to the printer
options from the control panel, or when you are printing you can access some
form of advanced options.
I know not yet of any way to get it via software for my Brother 2400.

== This solution helped 5 people ==
On our HL5250DN I can go to the printer's IP in a web browser which pulls up
various information. Under Maintenance Information there is a page count.

== This solution helped 4 people ==
Looks like you need to print out the printer settings page, not the test page
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/BSC/public/eu/gb/en/faq/faq/000000/000500/
000071/faq000571_000.html?reg=eu&prod=hl5250dn_all&c=gb&lang=en

If you have PostScript enabled, you can get the pagecount from the statusdict
dictionary. You need a bidirectional connection to the printer, either over the
net or from the host to which it is attached. The http://www.postscript.org/
FAQs/language/node3.html has some information on this.

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