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Title: Recommendations for Print Management Software
Post by: gbentley on December 11, 2014, 11:07:31 PM

Hi All,

We have a colour photocopier on the ground and first floor as well as a plotter. They are all IP addressable. The client machines [w7] are all defaulted to greyscale however sometimes users print a doc that is first 2 pages colour, entirely in colour. Since getting the network copiers printing costs have gone up from 300 to 800 GBP / month and we need to get on top of this.

Can anyone recommend any print management software that will log print jobs/users/type[colour|mono] etc? I have a few spare boxes knocking around from the XP upgrades so could dedicated a box to this. We have some w7 licences also so it could be windows [or another, FOSS?]

Anyway which ever it is I am open to suggestions - free=better :)

Thanks!

Title: Re: Recommendations for Print Management Software
Post by: Stefano on December 12, 2014, 09:24:09 AM

the first that come in mind is papercut...
www.papercut.com

Title: Re: Recommendations for Print Management Software
Post by: Mat78 on December 30, 2014, 12:31:37 AM

Some network printer and multifunction device can log users print and copy with an internal accounting software (free to use).

Title: Re: Recommendations for Print Management Software
Post by: krishwattdesk on May 11, 2015, 09:17:08 PM

Quote from: gbentley on December 11, 2014, 11:07:31 PM

Hi All,

We have a colour photocopier on the ground and first floor as well as a plotter. They are all IP addressable. The client machines [w7] are all defaulted to greyscale however sometimes users print a doc that is first 2 pages colour, entirely in colour. Since getting the network copiers printing costs have gone up from 300 to 800 GBP / month and we need to get on top of this.

Can anyone recommend any print management software that will log print jobs/users/type[colour|mono] etc? I have a few spare boxes knocking around from the XP upgrades so could dedicated a box to this. We have some w7 licences also so it could be windows [or another, FOSS?]

Anyway which ever it is I am open to suggestions - free=better :)

Thanks!

Well I suggest you to use PrintConductor. It can log Print jobs and user types along with other data and works well with almost all the editions of Windows. It is a nice Printing Management Software. So it wont be a problem. You can try it at http://www.print-conductor.com