HSLAB Print Logger SE 5.2.0

HSLAB Print Logger SE 5.2.0 is designed as a professional program that can allow you to control your printing costs by setting quota for printing! Ideal print tracking solution for business, enterprise, small business, small office, personal, family usage. The Print Logger quotas software is intended for a a print management for printers at print server, based on Windows operation systems family. The Print Logger inspects the print jobs on a computer, where Print Logger is installed. Main purpose of the program - collection of the information about sizes (in pages) of local print jobs and record it to the database for the subsequent analysis or creation reports about printing activity.

As enterprise level software, The program allows you remote access to the statistics using any web browser or client software. Administrator can set access rights for the remote users to the statistical information about print jobs. Access rights can be defined being based on a login name, users group membership or on IP address of a computer from which request the information. Such as client components using TCP/IP protocol as a transport, information can be accessed using local area network, wireless network or any IP-based network including Internet.

in addition, the HSLAB Print Logger can also inspect sizes of print jobs based on defined quotas and prohibit printing, if the quotas are exceeded (cost recovery and audit print). Quotas for printing is very effective and powerful mechanism for disbursement management on printing in your company. Limiting printing activities for some employees, you can really save on a toner for printers, paper (especially at a color printing), charges for repair and service for printers.

Major Features:

1. The collection of the information and printing job control can be organized by several ways:
   
   • Collection of the information and control of printing jobs for the selected printer (printers);
   • Collection of the information and control of printing jobs for the selected user (users);
   • Collection of the information and control of printing jobs for the selected group (groups);
   • Collection of the information and control of printing jobs for the selected computer.
2. The program has the modular architecture and consists of several modules:
   
   • the collection module (main server module) - provides the process of collection of the information from printers, maintenance of a urgency of the information about the printer's configuration in the system, job control on printing;
   • The remote information module - provides remote access to all statistics information remotely, useful for accounting, billing and administrative divisions;
   • The "My print jobs" agent, may be running on client machines. This module allows to users to see they printed jobs and spent costs remotely;
   • An administrative console module (plAdmin) - provides the process of the software configuration and definitions of quotas;
   • The - provides the remote access to the printing statistics;
   • The HTTP and HTML module - provides the remote access to the printing statistics using Embedded Web server, creates HTML reports;
   • The reporting module - creates reports using PDF, RTF, BMP and other file formats;
   • The notification module - provides the notifications for users and administrators about printing events.
3. If you want to use a quotas for printing, you should to remember, that a base principle of job control is a mechanism of quotas. The quota is amount of pages (or money units) in the print job, which amount can not be exceeded. In case of exceeding quotas the print job is removed from printing and the information on it can be shown to the user (depending on the selected mode). The program can operate with four varieties of quotas:
   
   • The quota for the computer - defines a maximum quantity of pages (costs), which can be printed by any user of the given computer on any printer of this computer;
   • The quota for the user - defines a maximum quantity of pages (costs), which can be printed by the given user on any printer of this computer;
   • The quota for the printer - defines a maximum quantity of pages (costs), which can be printed on the  by any user
   • The quota for the group any printer by the given group.

Enhancements:

1. Cost accounting engine has been added. Now you can see your printing expenses in real time;
2. Hint displaying time option has been added.

Requirements: Any computer with Microsoft® Windows NT/2000/XP/2003

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