6.9 MONITORING
Monitor, Measure, Manage
The key to sustaining the savings reaped from managing printing is
to
measure, adjust, measure, adjust etc.
continuously.
Any management tool needs to include reports with
trend graphs showing pages, costs, and problems.
reports should highlight where improvements can be made such as
moving devices
swapping devices
replacing devices
The goal is to reduce total printing costs and increase availability.
The management tool needs to be able to continuously monitor the corporate print environment and generate the data for these reports.