What is it?
The Print Logger software is intended for a control and
audition printing activity for printers. The program inspects the print
jobs on a computer, where software is installed. Main assignment of the
program - collection of the information about sizes(in pages and kilobytes)
of local print jobs and record it to the database for the subsequent analysis
or creation reports about printing activity.
Besides the program can inspect sizes of printing according
to the defined quotas and to prohibit printing, if the quotas are exceeded.
Quotas for printing is very powerful and effective mechanism for cost
management on printing in your organization. Limiting printing activities
for some employees, you can really save on a paper, a toner for printers
(especial at a color printing), expenses for repair and service for printers.
The collection of the information and printing job control
can be organized by three main ways:
collection of the information
and control of printing jobs for the selected printer (printers); collection of the information
and control of printing jobs for the selected user (users); collection of the information
and control of printing jobs for the selected computer.
The listed ways can be used as together, and in various
combinations, allows to apply the way, most convenient for everyone concrete
case, for a control of printing.
The program has the modular architecture and consists
of several modules:
the
collection module (agent) - provides the process of collection of the
information from printers, maintenance of a urgency of the information
about the printer's configuration in the system, job control on printing; the remote information
module - provides remote access to the print jobs information based on
several security conditions; an administrative
console module (PLAdmin) - provides the process of the software configuration
and definitions of quotas.
If you want to use a quotas for printing, you should to
remember, that a base principle of job control is a mechanism of quotas.
The quota is amount of pages (or kilobytes) in the print job, which amount
can not be exceeded. In case of exceeding quotas the print job is removed
from printing and the information on it can be shown to the user (depending
on the selected mode). The program can operate with three varieties of
quotas:
the quota for the computer
- defines a maximum quantity of pages (kilobytes), which can be printed
by any user of the given computer on any printer
of this computer; the quota for the user
- defines a maximum quantity of pages (kilobytes), which can be printed
by the given user on any printer of
this computer; the
quota for the printer - defines a maximum quantity of pages (kilobytes),
which can be printed on the given printer by any user.
NOTE: The quotas are summarized by the OR
rule - if ANY of the defined quotas is exceeded, the print job is cancelled.
If the control of printing is not used, the program allows to print any
amount of the information and only gathers the information on printing.
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