printer consumables and supplies tracker

[aviso66]

Looking for a reliable printer supplies and consumables tracker.
can someone advice? is there any opensource or free available?

kinda like monitor printer toner and parts replacement, total counter...etc

[techsxge]

Re: printer consumables and supplies tracker

Looking for a reliable printer supplies and consumables tracker.
can someone advice? is there any opensource or free available?

kinda like monitor printer toner and parts replacement, total counter...etc

What MFP's are you servicing?

[rthonpm]

Re: printer consumables and supplies tracker

An onsite or remote tool? For something onsite, any SNMP application should be able to pull the information you're looking for. Many manufacturers offer one for their products that have access to private SNMP keys that can give you even more detailed information on their equipment, and at least some basic information on other manufacturers' devices.

For a remote tool, you're probably looking for some kind of print management software. There are plenty to choose from ranging from pricey to obscenely expensive depending on how many machines you're looking to manage.

[aviso66]

Re: printer consumables and supplies tracker

What MFP's are you servicing?

kinda like ricoh or gestetner

[slimslob]

Re: printer consumables and supplies tracker

kinda like ricoh or gestetner

Gestetner is a fully owned subsidiary of Ricoh.

[allan]

Re: printer consumables and supplies tracker

1995 was when RICOH bought Gestetner. Are there still new Gestetner branded RICOH's out there somewhere?

There are a bunch of opensource SNMP network monitoring tools. They are not specific to printers but all network devises. You will have to bend the software to your will by creating a data base to your needs. Then you can pull all manner of reports from that. Grafts and charts and bells and whistles.
Also you will have to obtain each vendors MIB layout to know where the info you need lies. But once that is don't you have a real nifty tool for free. There was a guy one hear not long ago building his own utility to asses the status of large number of used machines coming in that I found fascinating.

Here is a list of possible software that could be useful for this. Or pay and get something that just work like Papercut.

Top 14 Open Source SNMP Tools | Hitecnectar

[slimslob]

Re: printer consumables and supplies tracker

1995 was when RICOH bought Gestetner. Are there still new Gestetner branded RICOH's out there somewhere?

If there are it would be in Europe. I don't remember the exact year but about 2000 to 2005 Ricoh realigned their dealer division to supposedly take greater advantage of regional name recognition. Gestetner was originally a European company, Germany I think, and Lanier was original a US company. Therefore all Lanier dealers in Europe became Gestetner and all Gestetner became Lanier.

[rthonpm]

Re: printer consumables and supplies tracker

For any Ricoh devices, use their own Device Manager tool as it has access to their private MIB files which offer more details than the public printer MIB's offer.

I've used SNMP through Zabbix to monitor Ricoh savings devices in the past and often the values returned are very inaccurate.

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