print volume reporting solution for USB connected Ricoh printers

[Brianneoe]

Can anyone point me in the right direction on a client\server solution that collects meter counts on USB connected Ricoh printers. If it also collects the counts on networked machines all the better. The account that I need this for has 50 standalone USB connected printers along with 15 networked MFPs. Right now they are using the latest version of Copy Track to bill out their clients (law firm)but I believe the Copy Track product won't give me a total per machine printer\MFP meter read.
If anyone is using Copy Track and knows that this solution can perform this task please let me know..

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

[blackcat4866]

Printfleet has a utility that installs on the local PC to relay counts from USB printers. =^..^=

[qbert69]

Printfleet has a utility that installs on the local PC to relay counts from USB printers. =^..^=

USB doesn't play too nicely with Printfleet....Printfleet uses SNMP to query machines on the ethernet network of which SNMP is a protocol of and gives complete machine statistics.

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[Kimi]

Netaphor Site Audit will do this.

[qbert69]

Netaphor Site Audit will do this.

How does it do a complete query through USB???

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[Kimi]

How does it do a complete query through USB???

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SiteAudit finds printers directly connected (via USB or parallel connections) to a
Windows host. To access the host, SiteAudit requires the credentials of a user who is an
administrator on that host. To make sure that discovery succeeds, you should:

 Provide a credential that will work on all hosts
 Ensure that these credentials do NOT get locked out after a number of failed
attempts
 Run the “Unauthenticated Hosts” reports to see which hosts did not allow access,
and add the credentials for that host

[qbert69]

SiteAudit finds printers directly connected (via USB or parallel connections) to a
Windows host. To access the host, SiteAudit requires the credentials of a user who is an
administrator on that host. To make sure that discovery succeeds, you should:

 Provide a credential that will work on all hosts
 Ensure that these credentials do NOT get locked out after a number of failed
attempts
 Run the “Unauthenticated Hosts” reports to see which hosts did not allow access,
and add the credentials for that host

So how much "deep information" may be obtained such as machine error codes???

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[Kimi]

So how much "deep information" may be obtained such as machine error codes???

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I've never done it but see attached.

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[tsbservice]

No way that USB(locally) connected printers will report all that info. We use Printfleet, but never attempted to connect local printer.
Author mentioned he needs meter readings, that may be the case with this software or others like Printfleet.

[Kimi]

OP should download Site Audit and get a trial license and test how well it works