[thelist] tracking the printing of a webpage

martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com
Mon Nov 20 04:49:43 CST 2000


Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Unless there's a JavaScript/ActiveX thing going on which
registers when you print, and sets a cookie.

Sounds like a Windows/IE solution to me.

Cheers
Martin



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On 11/19/00 at 4:13 PM, Elizabeth Hincks <liz.hincks at telocity.com> wrote:

> How in the heck can you track how many copies of the web
> page are printed out? Am I crazy or is this impossible?

It's impossible. Printing is client side only, and speaks to no servers (unless
it's an internal network). In either case, they can only guess that you are
printing with each access.


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