Aloha, does anyone know if there are any free programs that can keep track of pages a printer prints? It seems like I am going though ink really fast and would like some way of tracking this.
There are to many people that use the printer and they would not keep tally. The only way that that would work is if I watched over the printer all day long or made it so that only I could print things and both of those ideas are not sounding very good.
What a lot of people do is keep a toner/ink log on a piece of paper near the machine. What you do is write down the total page count and the date every time toner/ink is replaced. That way you can figure out how many pages you get per toner/ink cartridge. You can lock up or hide the toner/ink cartridges and put a note on the printer telling the other users to see you when the toner/ink needs to be replaced. That way you can be sure the log is updated every time the cartridge is replaced.
some printers have a builtin page counter, I coulnd't find any good freeware programs, Print Manager Plus from softwareshelf is a good soultion but may be too expensive for your needs