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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:
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New
Authorize local
print jobs
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New
Generate printing
costs for billing
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New
Enable/Disable printers
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New
Add account or tracking
numbers for print jobs
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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
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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
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- 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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