Print monitoring and metering can save millions of dollars for a corporation in hardware, paper, and wasted time. Print Monitoring gives management an unprecedented power for the first time to analyze, when a printer is under- or over-utilized. Management can make an accurate forecast based on fact about printer utilization. Most office managers don't have an understanding of how many pages each employee is printing in a year or in a week. What time of the day the printer is used the most or what time of the day the printer is idle. Since management does not have the critical information of how many pages are being printed and who does the most printing, offices end up with over capacity. Office equipment suppliers routinely "over-sell" expensive high-end printers to their customers.
With print monitoring, one can quickly and precisely assess an office need and calculate the printer hardware needed for the office. Identifying printing habits of individuals or the office and allocating resources accordingly can reduce paper waste by eliminating reprints and identifying faulty devices. A defective printer with faulty paper feed can cost a lot for an office in wasted time and wasted paper because of frequent paper jams resulting in reprinting.
Some additional benefits of print monitoring are document print monitoring for auditing. Law firms and accounting firms can monitor which document is printed, who did the printing, on which printer and when the document is printed.
How does it work ?
The Black Ice Print Monitoring will collect information about the printing on the fly. The information is transmitted, by the transport module, to the Print Monitor Server through TCP/IP. The Print Monitor Server can collect data from one or more computer. Finally all data is stored in a database. Periodically reports can be generated from the database to view the utilization of a printer during a time period. The system administrator can see which printer was used in a given time period, which documents were printed to that printer and how many pages that printer has printed. You can even see which documents have been printed by a specified user during a certain time period, or how many pages a user has printed.
System requirement:
Compatible with any printer and it does not require a Black Ice printer driver. If Print Monitoring is used with Black Ice Printer Drivers, it requires printer driver version 7.55 or higher.
Print Monitoring is supported on the following platforms:
Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista and 64 bit Windows
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