Print tracking tools help you understand where you’re incurring costs, so you can get them under control.
It’s a question we are asked often: “Can I track how much my office prints?” Office print tracking captures and records information about your office’s printing behaviors.
You can’t plan for what you can’t measure. And not knowing the total number, length, etc. of what documents are being printed and by which department and individual makes it difficult to ensure that printing costs are under control.
Print tracking tools help you understand where you’re incurring costs, which will in turn lead you to effective decisions on how to cut costs and optimize output.
Some tools, such as PaperCut, will provide an executive dashboard view and report for a quick snapshot of your print environment: the printing summary of the entire organization; top 10 users, printers, and printer groups; the environmental impact for the entire company; and filter by group, department, or office.
If printing reports show overwhelming numbers of simplex prints, then you could consider adding print rules to enforce more duplex printing. Whatever the reports reveal, start tracking and then start using that information to streamline your print environment.