Free basic "print report" for primary school

[burgemaster]

Hi all,

Have anyone by any chance devised a script or similar that will give some kind of print out with number of print copies sent to a printer?

 

We have PaperCut up at our school, but with such a small school I wonder if anyone has already solved this in a similar situation? Maybe a script that looks at print logs and does a count per username?

 

Many thanks in advance!!

 

Server 2012 r2

Kyocera p6030

[IrritableTech]

I think papercut still do the basic reporting software for free? It logs to a csv file, you could manually create so stats in excel.

 

[edit] Actually it's even better these days... http://www.papercut.com/products/free_software/print_logger/

Edited January 14, 2015 by IrritableTech

[burgemaster]

Your right!!! Great find thank you!!!!

I automatically ignored every papercut web search

Thanks again

Edited January 14, 2015 by burgemaster

[MatthewL]

PaperCut can be trialled for 40 days free by the way. Worth its money I think.

[burgemaster]

PaperCut can be trialled for 40 days free by the way. Worth its money I think.

Hi MatthewL,

Totally agree! We have been running it for around 8 years. But for 1 printer and 5 staff its possibly a little overkill!

Cheers

Tim

[Chris_]

Hi MatthewL,

Totally agree! We have been running it for around 8 years. But for 1 printer and 5 staff its possibly a little overkill!

Cheers

Tim

 

PaperCut NG is free for up to 5 users. PaperCut Education Pricing - Schools, Colleges, Universities - PaperCut

[burgemaster]

Thanks Chris your correct!

I've installed the free version and it does exactly what was requested.

[steve2]

Papercut is great, only cost is around £350 and if you buy it around November then the next update (usually January) is free. It's a one off cost unless you want updated versions. We use it and works very well with iPad deployments and gives the ability to hold prints for them