Nerd:PCounter
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Accounting started Friday, 5-11-07 @ 1:30pm
PCounter is a program that works alongside NDPS (Novell Distributed Printing Services) to account for printing. It can also provide user authentication and information related to specific printing jobs.
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Reasons For Accounting
- Student accountability for printing habits and costs
- Keep track of toner expenses
- Track print jobs and pages printed
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Global Settings
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Cost per page
- Currently with our printer set, our average cost for 5% coverage on our b/w printers is $0.03. I assume that most print jobs will be more in line with 15-25% coverage. Color prints on average are a factor of 7x greater than that.
- B/W Printer: $0.06/page
- Color Printer w/choice of B/W in same room: $0.06 x Multiplier of 5 = $0.30/page
- Color Printer w/out choice of B/W in same room: $0.06 x Multiplier of 2 = $0.12/page
- Plotter: $0.35 per square foot x 3' roll = $1.05 per linear foot
- Currently charging accounts and logging but not killing jobs if balance is falls below the low limit. (essentially an unlimited balance)
- Duplex is rewarded by cutting page count in half and has a multiplier of .75 against cpp.
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Possible Configuration Goals
- Pop-up authentication/information windows to keep track of who is printing what
- Pop-up Student Authentication for Patron print jobs
- No pop-up authentication for staff, but have a declining balance for accounting purposes only
- Allow Librarians to add money to student accounts
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Statistics Collected
Printer daily page usage: 05/11/2007 to 05/22/2007 Printer 05/14/2007 05/15/2007 Printer total Daily average ------------------------------------ ---------- ---------- ------------- ------------- Admin_240n.Printers.District 14 11 25 12 Admin_Color_Copier.Printers.District 21 3 24 12 Admin_Kyocera.Printers.District 67 180 247 123 AHS_A11.Printers.District 152 122 274 137 AHS_A12.Printers.District 30 22 52 26 AHS_A13_Color.Printers.District 26 73 99 49 AHS_A6_Science.Printers.District 162 243 405 202 AHS_A7.Printers.District 25 35 60 30 AHS_B5.Printers.District 6 6 3 AHS_C3.Printers.District 51 9 60 30 AHS_D6_History.Printers.District 12 57 69 34 AHS_Dell_Cart.Printers.District 158 56 214 107 AHS_F4_Lab.Printers.District 200 377 577 288 AHS_G_Color.Printers.District 67 39 106 53 ahs_laptop_cart.Printers.District 27 78 105 52 AHS_Lib_Black.Printers.District 773 334 1107 553 AHS_Library_Color.Printers.District 42 118 160 80 ahs_njrotc_lex332n.Printers.District 6 9 15 7 AHS_Office_Color.Printers.District 23 8 31 15 AHS_Reading.Printers.District 79 6 85 42 AIS_Asst_Prin.Printers.District 1 1 2 1 AIS_C5.Printers.District 21 21 10 AIS_Computer_Lab.Printers.District 124 51 175 87 AIS_Lib_C750.Printers.District 514 208 722 361 AIS_Office_C5016.Printers.District 33 29 62 31 AIS_RACK1.Printers.District 10 68 78 39 AIS_RACK2.Printers.District 455 45 500 250 AIS_Reading_Lab.Printers.District 50 18 68 34 AMS_A6.Printers.District 618 131 749 374 AMS_Band.Printers.District 14 14 7 AMS_Cafeteria.Printers.District 11 10 21 10 AMS_CHOIR.Printers.District 9 65 74 37 AMS_D1_LAB.Printers.District 29 37 66 33 AMS_D5.Printers.District 82 166 248 124 AMS_Dell_Cart.Printers.District 4 1 5 2 AMS_E10.Printers.District 11 11 5 AMS_E6.Printers.District 274 27 301 150 AMS_Lib_C.Printers.District 409 214 623 311 AMS_Lib_Lower.Printers.District 585 148 733 366 AMS_Office_Color.Printers.District 114 109 223 111 AOS_Laser.Printers.District 287 25 312 156 APS_Counselor.Printers.District 11 4 15 7 APS_Lib_Color.Printers.District 279 100 379 189 APS_Ofc_C.Printers.District 23 6 29 14 APS_PSC.Printers.District 34 28 62 31 APS_SpecEd.Printers.District 67 31 98 49 APS_Workroom.Printers.District 132 19 151 75 ASD_CONF_LASER.Printers.District 27 22 49 24 ASD_Tech_C760.Printers.District 7 20 27 13 ASD_Tech_C_Laser.Printers.District 37 1 38 19 ASD_Tech_Copier.Printers.District 8 8 4 ------------------------------------ ---------- ---------- ------------- ------------- Printer 05/14/2007 05/15/2007 Printer total Daily average ------------------------------------ ---------- ---------- ------------- ------------- All printers 6213 3372 9585 4779 Printer average 121 66 187 93
