3Com 860 setup guide Usage Profile Reports, Types of Reports, Setting up Usage Profile Reporting

Printer Management

Usage Profile Reports

The printer can generate reports detailing printer usage. Usage profile reports track over

160 items, including:

■Unique printer information, such as printer name, date installed, total pages printed, options installed, and network ID.

■Supplies usage data (for example, ink). By tracking supplies usage, you can order supplies in advance, so your printer will always be well-stocked with supplies.

■Media and tray information, such as how often prints are made on paper compared to transparencies, and how often each tray is used.

■Job characteristics, such as size and timing of jobs.

Types of Reports

■Job report — The job report contains information on the last printed job. This report can only be e-mailed; it cannot be printed, because printing it creates a new job that overwrites the report data. The job report is useful in environments where billing for each print job is required.

■Full report — The full report contains detailed printer usage information for all jobs printed during the life of the printer. The full report is available in several formats. See the following table for details.

Full Report Formats

Printed		E-mailed
Viewable; fields are labeled for easy reading.		The following two formats available:
The following three formats available:		■ For viewing. Empty fields omitted; fields
	Empty fields omitted.
■		labeled for easy reading.
■	All fields shown.	■ For spreadsheet. All fields shown; for easy

■ For OCR (optical character recognition). All	import into spreadsheets, most data is
	numerically encoded, and field labels are
fields are shown, with labels, but the reports
	omitted.
are set up to be readable by OCR equipment.
All text is in a monospace font and each data
value is in a fixed location on the page.

Setting up Usage Profile Reporting

1.Connect to the printer via CentreWare IS (see page 23).

2.On the right side of the page, click Jobs.

3.Select Usage Profile on the left, then choose Usage Profile Properties.

4.Follow the instructions on the page for setting up reports.

5.Click Save Changes to save your changes.

For complete information on Usage Profile reporting, including descriptions of each field in the report, see the CentreWare IS Help.

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