RE: How to manage Cost Per Copy in large accounts?

I not only can ping them. I view the embedded web server where all
sorts of info can be seen. Again, this is local.

I found one of my suppliers is offering print management systems. So I
have contacted them. It looks like you can load software on one network
PC at customer's site. Then you can log in remotely and view all
printer info for all printers on that network.

I'll talk with them more today.

Thanks,
Andy

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> Andy;
> You should be able to ping the Jetdirect from a PC, of course you'll
need
> to know the IP of it.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: printerrepair%40yahoogroups.com">printerrepairyahoogroups.com [mailto: printerrepair%40yahoogroups.com">printerrepairyahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of Andy Brasfield
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 9:32 AM
> To: printerrepair%40yahoogroups.com">printerrepairyahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Laser Printer Repair] How to manage Cost Per Copy in large
> accounts?
>
> Mike,
>
> I checked a couple JetDirects yesterday. One was model 610, which is
> kind of old. They both displayed page counts. However, that was local
> access. In both cases, I accessed from the local network, not remote.
>
> I guess to access these cards remotely would require software, like PC
> remote or something similar.
>
> I found some companies/products on Google. The most interesting to me,
> considering we are trying to get started, is a service that emails each
>; end user and asks them to enter the page count online. Then, the counts
> are emailed to the dealer.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Andy
>;
> >
> > Unless the printers in use can show usage from remote (I've just
>; > looked at a few of our HP's, and they cannot, at least from the built
> > in JetDirect web page, anyway), you'd need to use some sort of printer
> > accounting software (which would usually mean use of a dedicated print
> > server).
> >
> > Search for "printer accounting software" and you will have all the
> > info you'd probably ever need (and more!) to help you in your quest.
> >
> >
> > Now, whether your clients will want to switch to using a dedicated
> > print server (if they aren't already) would be a different story...
> >
> > Speaking of colleges, we use a software package on our dedicated print
> > server for this task. I couldn't tell you what software package
> > (Because I don't know), but I do know one is in use.
> >
> > Mike
>; >
> > On 1/24/07, Andy Brasfield < abrasfield%40southeasternlaser.com">abrasfieldsoutheasternlaser.com> wrote:
&gt; > > Are any of you selling cost per copy or managed print services to your
>; > > clients? We have been doing this for a while with smaller
clients, but
> > > we'd like to approach larger clients with this model. The problem is
> > > collecting page counts. With smaller clients who may have just a few
> > > printers on contract, we just call them to get monthly meter
reads. But
> > > that doesn't seem reasonable for clients who may have dozens of
> > > printers, possibly located in different buildings. College
campuses are
> > > like that.
&gt; > >
>; > > Please share methods for collecting meter reads.
&gt; > >
>; > > Thanks,
> > > Andy
>; > > --
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