Green Print: Blog
Print Management & Rules based routing
Wednesday 21st September '11
Controlling and managing print through a rules-based system ensures complete compliance within corporate guidelines, giving a print system that is influenced by how management wishes users to print.
This can introduce print behaviour that results in reduced costs with a more effective use of print devices.
Print management & Rules-based printing means that the client can:
- Redirect large print jobs to the most cost-effective device and avoid costly print mistakes ·
- Redirect colour jobs to ensure they are printed on a colour device
- Enforce duplex print on certain applications or users ·
- Enforce mono print on certain applications or users ·
- Direct certain applications, users or departments to a specific device
Using any dotNET language, administration can introduce and write new rules to suit the particular needs of an organisation. This means a unique print policy can be configured that responds to both the requirements of users and the needs of the organisation.
Tracking changes made to a print policy through a detailed reporting tool ensures that its effectiveness can be monitored. This reporting tool is pre-configured to display a breakdown of prints by:
- Application ·
- User
- Device
- Colour or mono print Number of pages
This then allows a calculation of print costs by user, application, device or department, giving a detailed picture of the performance of a print policy and helping to identify changes that can be made to reduce costs and improve efficiency.
The client can configure existing reports and write new reports to suit their monitoring purposes, this process control ensures that an organisation can discover the effectiveness of their print rules. These reports can then be exported to SQL database for further in-depth analysis, making the reporting tool incredibly useful for those looking to examine their print management.
Utilising Kappris print driver for print management and to introduce rules-based printing helps an organisation to gain control over how users print. This in turn results in an environment in which good print behaviour is promoted and leads to cost savings and improved efficiency. Monitoring these rules through the reporting process gives a detailed examination of every aspect of how users print and offers an analysis that allows the client to introduce amendments and changes to their print policy to ensure corporate compliance, good environmental practice and cost-effectiveness
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