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Black Ice Software has released a unique
new technology called "Print Monitoring".
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 was 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.
IP Printing:
The Print Monitoring Server completely supports IP Printers in addition
to standard printers. Since IP printers connect
to the PC through a network, the IP printer could be at a different
physical location than the PC that has the drivers installed. Regardless
of the physical location of the IP printer, the Print Monitoring
Server can still monitor the IP printer by installing the client
on the PC where the printer driver for the IP printer is installed.
Print Monitoring Server
Features:
-
New
Authorize local print jobs
-
New
Generate printing costs for billing
-
New
Enable/Disable printers
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New
Add account or tracking numbers for print jobs
- Create User or Printer specific
reports containing the following items:
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Date
Time
User Name
Login Name
Printer Name
Machine Name
Document Name
Total Pages
Printed Pages
Paper
Color
Resolution
Paper Width
Paper Height
Remote IP
Printing Price |
Date of the printing
Time of the printing
Name of the user who printed
Name of the Print Monitoring Server printing user
Name of the printer that was printed to
Name of the computer that was printed from
Name of the document that was printed
Total number of pages in the printed document
Number of pages printed from the document
The page size of the printed page
If the print was Color or Black and White
The DPI of the printed page
The height of the printed page in .1 MM
The width of the printed page in .1 MM
The IP address of the printing computer
The cost of the print |
- Collect data from any printer,
whether it is a local printer, a network printer, or an IP
printer.
- Simple install -
just install the Print Monitoring Server software on any
machine, and then install the client software on the machine
where the printer driver is installed. That's it.
- Track any number of users or
computers
- A must for any
company or organization that charges for printing, such as law
offices, print shops, and internet cafes
Ideal for
use by:
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Law offices - Track printing
done on the behalf of a client and create billable amounts based
on generated reports
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Internet Cafes - generate a report for a specific user or computer
during an elapsed period of time
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Print Shops - Created billable amounts for a specific printer or
computer over an elapsed period of time, also track whether printing
was black and white or color.
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Schools - analyze use of school printers to determine if they are
being overused by faculty or students
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Business Offices - Determine utilization
of office or department printers
System
requirements:
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:
- Windows Vista (64 & 32-bit)
- Windows 2003 (64 & 32-bit)
- Windows XP (64 & 32-bit)
- Windows 2000 Workstation/Server
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