Print Logging

Look into PaperCut (http://www.papercut.com) Does this and a ton more. Several people on these forums use it.

Casper Suite doesn't manage printing usage. That's not to say you absolutely can't roll your own solution with scripts, Extension Attributes and such, but if you want something that works and is supported, look at the above.

Since Jamf continues to add features I wonder if this is a feature they may look to build into the furture.....
Would be nice...
Gabe Shackney
Princeton Public Schools

Well, perhaps. no way to know if something like this is on their radar or not (unless they comment on it)

But, if you wanted to get a basic idea of how many print jobs are being sent from each Mac by day, I suppose you could build your own solution as I mentioned above. For example, you could cycle through mapped printers and get a count of completed jobs from each separated by day. The biggest problem I see though is how to actually report on it? Pull it into an Extension Attribute? Perhaps, but you could be looking at hundreds of lines potentially, so its not the most efficient way to do it. Could even cause some issues with your Casper db if the data it collects gets too large.
Maybe send the output to a local file? But then you'd still need some way to collect that into a central system you can look at and report on. You could probably script it to curl the resulting file back up to a server somewhere. At this point though we're starting to get into crazy hackish methods. :)

Something like the Application Usage pie charts in Casper would be the ideal method rather than a huge list, but I don't know if there's an easy way to do something like that.

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