Now those of you that know what
I've been doing for the past decade or so, know that I love collecting
statistics for improving the daily performance. Here’s what I’ve got for the
printers.
Regarding our work printers, there's a constant need to push my users
into printing less, without pushing everything mindlessly into ePrints. And
I've found the tool to do it prober.
O&K Print watch is the name
I've been battling our corporate
firewall for years, not getting the permissions to open the ports for the
supplies collection services, and there's simply no way they'll get open.
Having my users for some reason refuse to report when the multifunction machines
are low before the supplies run out, have had me store supplies that grow old,
unused or simply get lost.
And made it send me mails on printers
that run with less than 20% supplies. And now I now longer have an extra
storage, yet the printers are not run dry.
Every morning I get this mail from
the frontdesk computer if any of the printers are at 20% or lower, I pick up
the phone and order the supplies needed, which is pretty easy when you get all
the information like serial and productnumber. Even if the supplier have a hard
time getting it home.
The fact it's so simple to install and use, takes all printers (the computer
knows of), and it leaves practically no footprint is more than enough to
endorse this. From here it’s something I’m going to have to push onto the
portfolio guys at HQ.
My next step with it would be the actual statistics of printing.
I've been curious about many of the
statistical features, like tracking who prints how much, who's printing
black/white compared to full color, Duplex, OfficeJets rather than LaserJets.
It seems I may be able to reduce the officewide printing by actually
pinpointing the users not following your print policies.
The options of dividing my users into groups and segment them into
profiles leaves plenty room for managers, marketing and finance alike to be
better informed of their impact on our carbonfootprint.