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printerRx Managed Printing Solution

Features:

Output Management

• Page Counts by printer, department & user
• Monitor MS & USB attached printers
• Monitors NT Print servers
• Monitors Print by user
• Tracks NT Print jobs

Printer Management

• Auto-discovery of USB, parallel & serial, network printers & print servers tracks MFP impressions
• Monitors all Device activities
• Parallel-attached Printers
• Groups printers for logical monitoring
• Historical database maintained for years
• Automatically locates printers
  
• Online statistics (downtime, alerts, pages printed)
• Monitors desktop printers (serial, parallel & network)

Alert Management

• Receive SNMP alerts
• Intelligent filtering of alerts
• Automates responses to these events without user intervention
• Notification of alerts via email
• Standard notification options including paging, e-mail, and trouble tickets
• Closes alerts
• Highlights problem and down printers

Enterprise Printer Management

• Forwards alerts to EMS (Tivoli, Unicenter,OpenView)
• Scalable to Corporation with thousands of printers in many locations
• Enterprise solution for corporate document strategy
• Usage reports – who’s spending the most on printing
• Single view of printer network with sorting & grouping
• At-a-glance views of network, group, and device status

Cost of Printing

• By print job
• By user
• By printer
• Variable (consumables)
• Fixed (asset, maintenance, floor space)
• Downtime costs
• Online viewing of costs
• Track costs to devices
• Track costs to users
• Averages & standard deviations of printer yields for each consumable
• Tracks user printing by pages printed, job lists, printers
• Who is printing what, where & what it costs
• Total Cost of print by printer & user

Asset Management

• Printer inventory
• Maintenance tracking & scheduling
• Purchase Financials & Lease information
• Printer Supplies Tracking
• Vendor Tracking
  

Enterprise Planning

• Printer usage reports
• Printer problem graphs
• Usage trend graphs

Complexity & Overhead

• Easy to set up, install, and configure; Rapid deployment
• Self-configuring & self-maintaining;
• No costly rule-based structure to implement
• Printer manufacturer & vendor independent
• Software installed on desktops for monitoring USB printers
• Software located on server
• Minimal Software management Overhead
• Minimal Network overhead
• Not corporate critical (if sw goes down, printing is unaffected)
• Complexity of install
• Not tied to a hardware manufacturer or vendor