Print Tracking / Print Counting in Windows Print Server Environment

 

Step 1. Download and extract the 30-day trial version of CZ Print Job Tracker, then double click setup.exe to install CZ Print Job Tracker.

Option 1 (recommended): Install CZ Print Job Tracker on your Windows print server e.g. \\PrintServer        print manager video

Option 2: Install CZ Print Job Tracker on a computer that is not a Windows print server e.g. \\CentralComputer        print manager video

Option 1: Install CZ Print Job Tracker on your Windows print server e.g. \\PrintServer

In this demo, CZ Print Job Tracker is installed on \\PrintServer with three shared printers: HP Designjet Z3100 44in Photo, HP LaserJet 4250 PCL6 and HP LaserJet 5000 Series PS.

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Step 2. Click Start -> All Programs -> CZ Solution -> CZ Print Job Tracker 7.0 to run CZ Print Job Tracker for the first time. If Preferences window doesn't appear, click menu Print Jobs -> Preferences.

Step 3. Click Refresh, select the printers you want to monitor in the list of "Available Local / Network Printers" and click Add to add them to the list of "Monitored Printers", click Save, and then click Exit.

Step 4. All print jobs sent to these shared printers will be tracked in CZ Print Job Tracker -> Printed Jobs.

Step 5. In Control Panel --> Administrative Tools --> Services, if CZ Print Job Tracker service has not been installed yet, click CZ Print Job Tracker menu Tools -> Install CZ Print Job Tracker service.

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Option 2: Install CZ Print Job Tracker on a computer that is not a Windows print server e.g. \\CentralComputer

In this demo, there are three Windows print servers: printserver1, printserver2 and printserver3 in your network.   Add network printers to the computer \\CentralComputer that has CZ Print Job Tracker installed.

Step 2. Choose Start -> Printers and Faxes (or Devices and Printers).

Step 3. Click "Add a printer" button to start the Add Printer Wizard, and then click Next.

Step 4. Click the "A network printer" option and follow the instructions on screen.

Step 5. The printer icon will be added to your Printers and Faxes folder (or Devices and Printers folder).  The network printer names are like "Printer-Name on Print-Server-Name".

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Step 6. Click Start -> All Programs -> CZ Solution -> CZ Print Job Tracker 7.0 to run CZ Print Job Tracker for the first time. If Preferences window doesn't appear, click menu Print Jobs -> Preferences.

Step 7. Click Refresh, select the printers you want to monitor in the list of "Available Local / Network Printers" and click Add to add them to the list of "Monitored Printers", click Save, and then click Exit.

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Step 8. All print jobs sent to these network printers will be tracked in CZ Print Job Tracker -> Printed Jobs.

Step 9. In Control Panel --> Administrative Tools --> Services, if CZ Print Job Tracker service has not been installed yet, click CZ Print Job Tracker menu Tools -> Install CZ Print Job Tracker service.

Note: In Control Panel --> Administrative Tools --> Services --> CZ Print Job Tracker, change the Local System Account to your account that is currently logged into this computer and with which you installed the CZ Print Job Tracker software, then restart the CZ Print Job Tracker service.

 

 

Click    1. print manager video        2. print manager video   to view the online demo