Hello everyone

I am in the process of creating a new plan for the department and I am stuck at how I can manage and limit photocopy jobs on canon imagerunner machine.

I know and I have tried pykota for print accounting successfully. However, I want to expand it to include imagerunner photocopy tasks as well.

Has anyone does something similar (imagerunner photocopy accounting remotely) with or without pykota? If so can you point me to the correct direction.

thanks in advance
devbro

You can look into the software from Brighhost, which provides drivers/interfaces to Canon Imagerunner devices. That may give you something you can look at, to grab the # of jobs, etc.

On another note...seriously?? This sounds like it's going to create quite a dismal work environment for folks at your site. Tracking print jobs, and limiting photocopy jobs? What's next....got to fill out the form, so your copy job can be approved?? Status reports every 15 minutes?? I know you may have your reasons, but this sounds very nit-picky, and I've been in environments like this before. The resentment that comes with such things is truly astounding.

thanks for the info. I will look into. We have problem with people printing too much and irresponsibly. and the Fact that some part of the system is shared with students is not helping.

Students are willing to pay for print and photocopy but using venda card is a pain as students keep throwing them out and it is causing a lot of issue.

Ahh...that's a bit different. Was thinking this was just for a work-environment, not shared/semi-public. They tried this at a place I worked, and people got VERY fed up, VERY quickly. The best way we found, was to have each department have their own printer/copier, and each was also responsible for maintenance/supplies/etc. When the department managers couldn't hide their costs anymore, amazingly, they cracked down on it.

The solution to the venda-card getting thrown out is easy...they can't print, so they can go elsewhere.