do you have some examples of the output of printstatus? (you can change the names/ips to protect your network, we just want the formatting).

If the output is a single line per printer you can use my previous example, otherwise there might be some work involved :)

Update:if the output is something along the lines of

name display toner level 
----------------------------------- 
printer1 toner low 25% 
printer2 toner low 1%
printer3 etc etc etc
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then this should work ok..

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI;

my $main=new CGI;
print $main->header;
print $main->start_html("Printer Status");

open(STATUSFILE," your_outfile") || die "Cannot open logfile!: $!\n";
while(<STATUSFILE>) {
        chomp;
        if (! ($_=~ /-----------------------------------/)) {
                #my ($printer,$display,$toner,$level) = split(/ /, $_)
+;
                my @status = split(/ /, $_);
                if (($status[0] eq "name") && ($status[1] eq "display"
+)) {
                        print "<center><table width=250 border=1><tr a
+lign=center>\n";
                        for (@status) {
                                print "<td><b>$_</b></td>\n";
                        }
                        print "</tr>\n";
                } else {
                        for (@status) {
                                print "<td>$_</td>\n";       
                        }
                        print "</tr>\n";
                }
        }
}
print "</table>\n";       
close(STATUSFILE);
exit;
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-p

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