A Windows-server solution that analyses and
produces customized statistics on printing costs
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MegaTrack
Overview
Reliable information on how your printers are used
– and misused – gives you the essential informa-
tion for controlling and redeploying your printing
assets, and managing your printer consumables.
But the flexibility for which you value network print-
ing can make it hard to track who is printing what,
where and when.
MegaTrack runs on print-servers to capture infor-
mation about the print job, and the user, cost-cen-
ter, and so on, that originates it. Gathering this data
in a database, and applying printer-specific cost
profiles provides an accurate picture of print costs,
and printer and consumables use. You can access
the resulting reports over the intranet (or extranet),
receive them as e-mails or import them into Excel.
This information is a powerful tool in streamlining
both day-to-day planning, and longer term printing
strategies.
Feature
• Built-in and customizable text and graphic
reports on costs, users, printers and docu-
ments
• Instantaneous and automated reports available
using a web-browser, sent to e-mail recipients,
or for import into Excel
• Scalable print-server/database-server/web-
server solution for any number of printers, with
negligible effect on printing speed and network
bandwidth
Benefit
• Captures and reports all network and local print-
ing activity
• Provides print job analyses, for example, to
uncover black-and-white use of colour laser
printers
• Gives you comprehensive data to assign costs,
control budget, identify inefficient use of printers,
streamline consumable planning or asset use
Usage Area
• Medium-sized to multinational companies who
need to record and assign printing costs
• Organisations who need to provide users with a
printing quota
• To optimize print environments
Supported Environment
• Supported products : Any PCL or PostScript
compliant Samsung printers
• Applicable regions : Europe
Output management |
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| Output management
Clients print a job
Job is received
by print spooler
running MPS
or MPC
MegaTrack
MDS
MWS
MDS will read
information
and input into
database
Linked to
Online Mail
Automatic
Ordering
Reports are
presented to
the user
Printer sends “trap”
to MegaTrack when
job is printed
Job is parsed and
data written to local
data store
Typical request specification
Report sample – number of printing pages
per devices
Delivery Type
3rd Party Product (Cost Option)
Work Flow Diagram
