Guest Eric Baines Posted January 14, 2008 Posted January 14, 2008 We have a number of windows print servers. For environmental reasons, I'd like to be be able to produce reports that show how much usage people are making of printers. Can anyone suggest any applications that will help me do this? Ideally, the data would be captured into a SQL database, and I could then produce intranet reports showing how many prints and how many pages each person and each printer has done over a set period. If it could show things like whether it is using high or low ink settings, double sided or single sided etc, that would be a bonus, but I'm less concerned about that. Any ideas?
Guest Thee Chicago Wolf Posted January 14, 2008 Posted January 14, 2008 Re: Printer servers - report usage >We have a number of windows print servers. For environmental reasons, I'd >like to be be able to produce reports that show how much usage people are >making of printers. Can anyone suggest any applications that will help me do >this? > >Ideally, the data would be captured into a SQL database, and I could then >produce intranet reports showing how many prints and how many pages each >person and each printer has done over a set period. If it could show things >like whether it is using high or low ink settings, double sided or single >sided etc, that would be a bonus, but I'm less concerned about that. At my location we use a software called GoPrint. It's more of a print management solution and not so much a reporting software. I don't know of a way to do this in Windows Server 2003 itself but if you have HP printers I think the Web Jetadmin has some basic reporting features that can poll printers and yank out information like duty cycle, page counts, last maintenance kit, etc. One of my co-workers uses it for reporting so that might be an option. - Thee Chicago Wolf
Guest Eric Baines Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 Re: Printer servers - report usage Thanks for the reply. Despite using HP printers for many years, I had not come across HP Web JetAdmin! That is certainly worth a look. I think in the end, we are going to have to go for more comprehensive print management, so your comments there are useful and if anyone else has any views about how to measure and manage printing, that'd be great too. Thanks again Eric "Thee Chicago Wolf" wrote: > >We have a number of windows print servers. For environmental reasons, I'd > >like to be be able to produce reports that show how much usage people are > >making of printers. Can anyone suggest any applications that will help me do > >this? > > > >Ideally, the data would be captured into a SQL database, and I could then > >produce intranet reports showing how many prints and how many pages each > >person and each printer has done over a set period. If it could show things > >like whether it is using high or low ink settings, double sided or single > >sided etc, that would be a bonus, but I'm less concerned about that. > > At my location we use a software called GoPrint. It's more of a print > management solution and not so much a reporting software. I don't know > of a way to do this in Windows Server 2003 itself but if you have HP > printers I think the Web Jetadmin has some basic reporting features > that can poll printers and yank out information like duty cycle, page > counts, last maintenance kit, etc. One of my co-workers uses it for > reporting so that might be an option. > > - Thee Chicago Wolf >
Guest Thee Chicago Wolf Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 Re: Printer servers - report usage >Despite using HP printers for many years, I had not come across HP Web >JetAdmin! That is certainly worth a look. > >I think in the end, we are going to have to go for more comprehensive print >management, so your comments there are useful and if anyone else has any >views about how to measure and manage printing, that'd be great too. > >Thanks again > >Eric Eric, Version 10 of the Web Jetadmin has been released and none of my guys has tried it yet so perhaps they've improved on the reporting side of things. Would be worth a look for your site and needs. Good luck. - Thee Chicago Wolf
Guest Daniel Farst Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 Re: Printer servers - report usage On Jan 15, 4:20 am, Eric Baines <EricBai...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > Despite using HP printers for many years, I had not come across HP Web > JetAdmin! That is certainly worth a look. > > I think in the end, we are going to have to go for more comprehensive print > management, so your comments there are useful and if anyone else has any > views about how to measure and manage printing, that'd be great too. > > Thanks again > > Eric > > "Thee Chicago Wolf" wrote: > > >We have a number of windows print servers. For environmental reasons, I'd > > >like to be be able to produce reports that show how much usage people are > > >making of printers. Can anyone suggest any applications that will help me do > > >this? > > > >Ideally, the data would be captured into a SQL database, and I could then > > >produce intranet reports showing how many prints and how many pages each > > >person and each printer has done over a set period. If it could show things > > >like whether it is using high or low ink settings, double sided or single > > >sided etc, that would be a bonus, but I'm less concerned about that. > > > At my location we use a software called GoPrint. It's more of a print > > management solution and not so much a reporting software. I don't know > > of a way to do this in Windows Server 2003 itself but if you have HP > > printers I think the Web Jetadmin has some basic reporting features > > that can poll printers and yank out information like duty cycle, page > > counts, last maintenance kit, etc. One of my co-workers uses it for > > reporting so that might be an option. > > > - Thee Chicago Wolf There is a software product called PaperCut that has been very useful for several departments at the university I work for. You install the software on your print server and it can track printing based on user, printer, or job code, and optionally manage quotas & print cost. It works great with Active Directory as well. http://www.papercut.com/ -- Dan
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