Following on from my previous post about setting the default printing to grey scale, I then wanted some reporting. So after a very quick search, I saw PaperCut mentioned, and the word ‘Free’ was also mentioned, so I gave it a go.
Installation was dead easy (I installed this on the print server of course)
It has a little webgui which can be accessed on the local machine and it provides all the stats I need:
- Time
- User
- Pages
- Copies
- Printer
- Document Name
- Client
- Paper Size
- Language
- Page Height
- Page Width
- Duplex
- Greyscale
- Size
I’m kinda glad that the grey scale option is there, as it had crossed my mind that people might try and fiddle it by selecting the B&W printer but then setting it to colour. Anyway, this solves that issue.
Once installed, all the data is saved in “C:\Program Files\PaperCut Print Logger\logs\csv\papercut-print-log-all-time.csv”:
For the moment, I’ve set IIS on the box to point to the PaperCut HTML directory (with a few changes to index.html for image paths) but I’m looking at writing my own front end to report on data from the csv file ‘papercut-print-log-all-time.csv’ , ideally this data will end up in a database. More to come on this.