Your Network Print Management

Knowing which printers are being used the most and who is producing the most pages is half the battle to controlling your printer technology. Once you know this information with a print audit you will easily be able to use it to your advantage in network print management. With the help of RoutXpress you can make several decisions for your printing. After you have the following information, you can begin to set controls for your network:

• The number of printers on your network
• The number of print jobs in a certain period
• The cost of printing produced by a printer, user or group of users

All of this can be determined with the help of RoutXpress. This information can help you determine which printer is best suited for each print job. It will help reduce costs and improve distributed output management.

Distributed Output Management Technology

Any time you need to print a document, there is going to be a printer at your office that is a good match for it. This is when you need to be prepared for distributed output management. Every employee will not necessarily know which printer they should pick for each job. This is why you should be using RoutXpress. A network administrator can determine these printing standards for your company and program the system to redirect print jobs as necessary. This printer routing will help you reduce costs and maintain control of your printer technology.

Printer Routing Options

Although two different printers in your office could probably produce the same document in the same quality, one is usually going to be a better option than the other. Determining the better option is usually dictated by the price of the paper and ink involved in the process. Most employees will generally opt to just use the printer that is either closest to them or the fastest. From the employer's standpoint, though, there is a good chance that neither of these is the best option. As the employer, you want your employees to be using the printer that is the most economical for that print job.

By installing printer routing technology in your network, you can overrule an employee's decision to use a specific printer. When rules are programmed for RoutXpress, it will help determine which printer is best suited for the job and direct it to that printer for perfect network print management.