P Counter

Most companies only address the tip of the iceberg in terms of greater efficiency and cost savings. Designed to unearth the hidden costs of network printers and printer output, Fuji Xerox�s Pcounter enables you to identify key measures of performance, and create a cost accounting structure to handle them. Its capabilities include print and job management, cost tracking, and cost recovery (charge-back). It develops strategic initiatives such as feedback loops to help you track and measure workflow improvements.

With Pcounter, intelligent page accounting and output management is now within your reach at a minimum cost.

Key Features

Improve accountability and control costs

• PCounter offers standard page accounting, chargeback,and debit/credit.
• Improve cross-charging and billing by choosing exactly how you want to account for your workflow.
• Create a feedback loop for system administrators and end-users to monitor and manage print activity and usage.
• Efficient tracking of print costs provides the data that's needed for accurate client charging.

Manage real-time challenges for increased productivity

• Eliminate end user printing problems -- overload, downtime, jams -- with drag and drop queue management to delete, reprioritize, and move backlogged jobs.
• Cut help desk costs and downtime with a single point of control for output queues.

Improve network performance with proactive planning

• Maximize printer productivity and minimize end user downtime by creating job rules that automatically reroute jobs to ready printers.
• Perform remote printer setups, rely on status alerts, and reduce IT support costs by having a single point of access into device management software -- regardless of vendor. PCounter launches any management software and you can work within it, without ever leaving PCounter.

Benefits

With Pcounter, System Administrators can easily re-prioritize job queue, delete print jobs, copy print jobs, or redirect print jobs to other queues via a simple drag and drop function. Print queues may be configured with a set of job rules. These rules allow the print jobs to be deleted, re-prioritized or automatically redirected based on the byte size or page size of the print job. Notification of print job deletion or redirection is then sent to the client via network broadcast or email. Pcounter's accounting functionality tracks activity down to the user level. Flexible reporting allows reports to be customized to meet specific business needs. For even further report customization, Pcounter utilizes industry standard comma delimited files for quick and easy importing into a number of report writers.