Stop Johnny

Did you catch the recent McDonald's McCafé Iced Coffee commercial? "Johnny" prints out a huge stack of pages that repeats the line "All work an no French Vanilla makes Johnny a dull boy."

Watch wasteful Johnny  

One way to avoid this wasteful printing is to buy Johnny an iced coffee...but Johnny probably has other issues that kept him from getting a coffee in the first place. A better option is to have document management capabilities as part of your overall Manged Print Services (MPS) solution. 

NER offers PretonSaver™, a print management software application focused on providing detailed print usage data for optimizing toner and paper consumption and controlling printing activity. PretonSaver gathers a robust set of user focused reporting data from all network and locally connected printers and includes extensive print policy enforcement capabilities for reducing toner and consumption.

Report Your Total Print Activity
An important step to controlling your print costs is to understand who is printing, how much they are printing and what they are printing across all devices. Through a complete view of user printing habits as well as device printing data, you can manage both user behaviors as well as device utilization. 

Proactively Manage Print Costs
Once you understand your print costs and issues, you can proactively drive down costs. 

• Report print overuse/abuse to departmental managers
• Educate employees on proper printing policies
• Advise users of issues and let them know that printing, like other cost items, is being tracked
• Force print rules by user, user group, device, device family or application including:
  - Forced Monochrome printing
  - Forced Duplex Printing
• Limit who can print from certain applications, such as browsers, or who can print color
• Set color or total print quota’s for users or groups and require users to request more pages once limits have been set

With the proper document management solution, you can measure your complete print costs and take action to drive your costs down, freeing up funding for more business critical areas.