Any way to know what clicks we did last month?

[warlegs]

I have a Ricoh Versafire C7110X and I see were we can get total clicks since new but wondering if there's a way to really pin that down... Any help appreciated.

 

[kslight]

You could get close by going through the job logs on the fiery. Or wait for your bill to come. Or if you’ve had a tech out in that period, they should have the meter read from the day they came out.

 

[warlegs]

You could get close by going through the job logs on the fiery. Or wait for your bill to come. Or if you’ve had a tech out in that period, they should have the meter read from the day they came out.

Thank you. We use the Heidelberg DFE And that goes back a few weeks, enough to get in the ballpark. Appreciate it kslight!

 

[Shawnd]

We print a click report from the printer every month about the same time Ricoh pulls the counts so we can audit the bills. You should have a counter button on the main control screen, push that and print out the report.

 

[bcr]

I really want to find a way to automatically download the printer clicks off the machines every month but haven't figured out automating that yet.

i always forget to do it each month and then i have a hard time reconciling the click invoices with the printing totals.

 

[Stephen Marsh]

If you have a print management system, it should be pretty easy to run a report for this for a given time frame (at least that is my expectation from the Accura Print MIS).

 

[Shawnd]

Not sure if you have glass on yours or not, just keep in mind if you have walk up traffic running copies that will not post to your DFE. You will need to get clicks straight from the machine like I posted. There must be a way to pull this info as Ricoh is able to do it, not sure if they are running a process we could tap into like the Syslog.

 

[bcr]

Not sure if you have glass on yours or not, just keep in mind if you have walk up traffic running copies that will not post to your DFE. You will need to get clicks straight from the machine like I posted. There must be a way to pull this info as Ricoh is able to do it, not sure if they are running a process we could tap into like the Syslog.

Chat GPT suggested creating a python script to log in and download the logs automatically, but i haven't really got the time to try that out tbh.

 

[MailGuru]

Not that this helps, but, you really should be keeping a manual log on each printer.
(i.e: Client/Job Name/Start Clink Count/End Click Count/Total Clicks Used on the Job)
This is not only useful for auditing your billing. It will also tell you how many wasted clicks on the job, unreported re-runs on a job, as well as whether or not you have employees printing unauthorized jobs after hours (church flyers, favors for friends, etc.)

 

[Ynot_UK]

We attach a copy of each machine’s readings to the PO emailed to our dealer (click provider), with last month’s readings and clicks used calculated and annotated. About as simple as it gets

 

[Craig]

We run manual Excel spreadsheets for all the printers each month.

 

[KopyBoss]

We run manual Excel spreadsheets for all the printers each month.

Same here run Excel spreadsheets for all printers each month and match the spreadsheet counts to our monthly bill.

 

[anthonyminchinton@yahoo.c]

In many in-plants they record each machines clicks every day by writing them manually in a log.
Three reasons: FIRST it tells you what your bills are going to be and SECOND you can compare billed jobs with click counts on a monthly or weekly basis to see who is taking advantage of your kit to line their own pockets (it does happen) and THIRD it tells you how bad you are at making waste prints.
My experience is that recording it every day at the end of shift is the only way to guarantee it is actually recorded.
This presumes you actually want to know how bad you are - it can be shocking.