Tracking
The Tracking feature allows you to oversee your print volume: How many printers are overloaded? Which are hardly used? How many color or black&white printouts are printed on a daily basis? What are the resulting costs?
How it works: The print data of ThinPrint Ports is compiled by the server and transferred into an SQL database. From there, they can be graphically presented as a website using the Tracking Report Engine, which also allows for many other settings, such as querying print volumes for a certain branch during a certain time period. Authorized individuals can access the website from anywhere.
Fig.: Tracking Report Engine: Distribution of print jobs by users, groups and printers
Tracking in use: The tracking feature is part of the following products: ThinPrint Application Server Engine and ThinPrint Server Engine. The tracking component of the ThinPrint Engine requires an SQL server, the Tracking Report Engine requires a web server. You can use the existing servers or the feature provided by Windows servers. Additional licenses, hard- or software are not required.