ROI Print Manager offers network IT managers a powerful tool to control their printing costs. The software is installed on a central collection point computer so there is no end user action required. The Print Admin Console pushes thin client agents out to each individual workstation on the network, which collects and report printing activity such as job size, application, user, workstation, number of pages, color/ B&W, simplex/duplex, date/time, etc. Guided by the print activity information, IT organizations can implement an enterprise-wide print management and cost containment strategy based on preconfigured rules. The rules trigger pop-up windows to encourage, or even compel certain print jobs to be sent to the most cost-effective and efficient network printers, instead of to costly desktop printers.

Corporate printing activity can consume up to three percent of a company’s annual revenues, yet most companies do not know how much they print or what it costs, and the proliferation of desktop printers across enterprises and diminishing print volumes at centralized print centers indicates that they have no strategy to contain print-related costs. The problem is that print costs are elusive and tracking and managing print activity is difficult and time consuming.