OK - so the VB.Net printer monitor component is pretty much finished so I was wondering what kind of price is realistic to charge for this kind of thing?
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OK - so the VB.Net printer monitor component is pretty much finished so I was wondering what kind of price is realistic to charge for this kind of thing?
what exactly is a Printer Monitor, and exactly was does 1€ translate into $'s :)
1 USD buys 0.931971 Euro right now (or close to it). Almost a one to one relationship.
The printer monitor component monitors the selected printer and raises event when that printer state changes e.g. when jobs are added or deleted, when a form is added, when the thing runs out of paper or (as most often happens) it jams..and it allows you to pause/resume/purge and reshcedule jobs.
Depends on the people you're gonna sell it to. :) If this component is likely to be used in commercial applications, ask e.g. €50 for it; if it's especially for personal use, ask less for it...
Corporate license: 100
Personal license: 25
That is how I would price it.
Sounds good - the beta and documentation are on this page fyi...
Does it work on a DocuSP? Or an Igen3, 2060, 6180?
It will work on any printer attached to a Windows NT/2000/XP machine using the standard print spooler - however if you are spending $510,000 on a printer (in the case of the iGen3) you could probably spend a few quid on a custom made print tracking solution.
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Just found out that DocuSP runs on Solaris - so that would be a neagtive then - unless MS are prepared to port the windows spooler system to Solaris...
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Found a similar spec. ActiveX component on ComponentSource for $135 per user so I reckon if I aim for half that it should be a reasonable proce.
So the decision is:
EUR 50 for a single developer license
EUR 350 for a site license (including source code)
There's a new release posted that exposes the printer properties (like comment, location, status (off-line, out of paper, etc.), job count) and the queued print job collection - and has all the goodness of wholegrain wheat fibre too.
It's licensed 'til 2003-06-06 if anyone wants to give it a look-see.
In case anyone is interested, version 1.1 (the first "Release" build ) was posted today. Numerous bug fixes and enhanced operation.
Version 1.3 posted
(I think I may be talking to myself though ;)