Reports in PaperCut ChargeBack come in three categories:
One-click Reports
get access to the most important data in realtime - straight from your web browser, from anywhere on your network
Access common reports with one click
Run reports from anywhere on the network with a standard web browser
Options include PDF reports, HTML and Microsoft Excel
Dozens of standard pre-built reports covering, users, printers, shared accounts, groups and logs
Customize report headers with your own organization's logo and details
A. User Based reports
User Based reports
User List
User Printing - Summary
Compare users' current balance, print usage and settings
CSV/Excel export provides a useful source for use by 3rd party applications
Sort by total pages, current balance, name, restriction status
Filter users by group or name
Compare users' print usage
See users' average print job statistics - do users mostly print large or small jobs?
Also sort by total pages or jobs - see who is printing the most jobs or largest jobs
User Printing - Job Type Summary
User Printing - Logs
Shows a breakdown of printing for each user by paper size, grayscale/color and simplex/duplex attributes
See what type of jobs each user is printing, and how much of each type
"Who is printing all the A3 documents?"
B. Printer Based reports
Printer Based reports
Printer
List
Printer
Usage - Summary
Compare printer usage and
settings
See the overall usage history of each printer, and use the information to find
trends - are certain printers more popular? Which printer is costing all the money?
Plan for printer upgrades based on the size and number of jobs
Filter reports by server, location or
printer name
Compare printer usage over a set time period (day, week, month or ad-hoc)
See
which printers are used most or least, and use the information to help
re-organize printer distribution or evaluate printer upgrades
Printer
Usage - Job Type Summary
Printer
Usage - Logs
See usage information for each printer, broken down by page size, grayscale/color and simplex/duplex
Show information for all printers or a subset
Use
the information to see if your printers are being used effectively. Do
you have an A3 printer that is only being used for A4? Perhaps an A4
only printer would be better suited
See
how many users are printing duplex documents. Do they need more
encouragement to do so? Apply a discount for duplex documents!
C. Group Based reports
Group Based reports
Group
List
Group
Printing - Summary
Compare group settings that are applied to
new users
Groups are based on your domain or Active
Directory group structure
Shows printing statistics from each group
See which groups print the most
Compare the average print job size for each group
Is one group's usage unusually high? Drill
down for more information in the group print
summary per user report
Group
Printing - Job Type Summary
Group
Printing - Logs
Shows a breakdown of group printing by paper
size, grayscale/color and simplex/duplex attributes
See which groups are using each paper size - do the large format printers belong in a
different area?
Shows full printing details for each group
Useful when another group based report has information that you need to 'drill down'
into
Group
Printing - User Summary
Group
Printing - Printer Summary
Shows which users were responsible for the
total printing within each group
Find trends in printing usage for each group
Shows each printer's usage split for each
group
See which printers are used most by each group
Is the accounts department using a printer more than the sales department? Perhaps the
printer belongs in the accounts department!
Use the information to re-distribute printers
Group
Printing - User Job Type Summary
Group
Printing - User Logs
Group
Printing - Printer Job Type Summary
Group
Printing - Printer Logs
D. Shared Account Based reports
Shared Account Based reports
Shared
Account List
Shared
Account Printing - Summary
Compare the current balance of each shared
account. Shared accounts may represent projects,
clients, work areas or departments
Shows print summary information for each shared
account
See which accounts are allocated the most printing
Spot stand-out account usage and drill down
using another shared account report
Shared
Account Printing - Job Type Summary
Shared
Account Printing - Logs
Shows a breakdown of shared account printing
by paper size, grayscale/color and simplex/duplex
attributes
See if certain shared accounts are using specific
paper sizes
If your accounts represent clients, use this
information for an invoice!
Provides more information than a shared account
print summary - useful to find out how the
total cost is made up - "from 18 color
A3 documents!"
Shows full printing details for each shared
account in a given date range
Useful when information seen in other account
reports requires further investigation
Shared
Account Printing - User Summary
Shared
Account Printing - Printer Summary
Shows a summary of printing use charged to
shared accounts by each user
See which users charge to an account the most
Find out if certain users are using an account
more than they should be
Shows which printers were used for each shared
account, and how much
Shared
Account Printing - User Job Type Summary
Shared
Account Printing - User Logs
Shared
Account Printing - Printer Job Type Summary
Shared
Account Printing - Printer Logs
E. Invoice Reports
Invoice Reports
Shared Account Printing Invoice - Summary
Shows printing activity for a shared account
and all its subaccounts
Useful for attaching to customer invoices
as a record
Ad-hoc Reports
create reports with custom data by specifying date ranges, filtering and sorting by the data available. Great to give you different perspectives on printing usage
1. The print log provides a detailed
record of printing activity
2. The filter panel narrows the results
shown in the print log table
The filter shown in the example will show the
print logs for all students who printed between
the given dates, and whose printing was denied
because they had run out of credit.
3. The report panel generates reports
based on the data shown
Construct your own datasets for reports
Run reports over given date ranges or filters
Export data from lists or tables
Schedule / Email Reports
create reports with custom data by specifying date ranges, filtering and sorting by the data available. Great to give you different perspectives on printing usage
Have reports automatically generated for you
Reports arrive direct to your inbox
PDF reports
Preview reports as PDF's prior to printing
HTML versions of all reports if PDF view is not available
Charting
Advanced charts compliment printable reports
Charts are interactive and reflect data in real-time
