If you just want to know what was printed, you can use the NT event log. If you're using Win NT, 2000, or XP, you can find Event Viewer under Administrative Tools in the Control Panel. The System Log will show Print events (event ID 10) every time a file is printed. Here's an example of what the log entry contains:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR> Document 4, invoice[1].pdf owned by dana was printed on Xerox WorkCentre XE via port LPT1:. Size in bytes: 336784; pages printed: 1 <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
If you were interested in only seeing how many times you printed something, you could set the filter to "Print" as the source, 10 as the event ID, and whatever date you were interested in. Then Event viewer would show you how many events you were looking at, which would tell you how many items you printed in whatever time period.
If you wanted a record of how many copies you made of each file, one could write a Perl or VBScript program to search for events and parse the contents of the log entries.
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