Print monitoring

Print monitoring is monitoring which users are printing to which printers. It allows you to ...

• Bill users for the cost of their printing
• Identify and reduce wasteful print use

Motivation

Volume based print use charging

Reduction of wasteful print usage

System overview

Pinter monitoring

Each printer will need to be monitored, both in terms of print jobs and in terms of printer status changes.

Printer usage recording

The information about each of these events will need to be stored in an appropriate database system.

Printer usage reporting

This is facilitated by reports and ad-hoc reporting on the database of printer usage.