Green Reporting

Overview

Green reporting tracks pages which have not been released, i.e. physically printed out. Sometimes, it is referred to as "purged print jobs". Green report can be displayed in web administration of YSoft SafeQ, tab Reports. Green report shows the number of print job pages that were received by YSoft SafeQ but never printed, represent volume of costs saved by Rule-based Engine and printing impact to the environment.

• Green reporting is presented via Usage and Cost reports interface.

• See Configuring Green reports for configuration and deployment description.

• See Creation and accounting of anonymous and purge jobs for information when purged pages are generated.

SafeQ tracks and reports number of "purged" pages: pages that has been sent to print, but not physically released at the device (based on defined rules or secured print). The reported data are shown as a number of trees used for consumed paper, volume of CO2 produced by creating consumed paper (information is only approximate, based on publicly available algorithms).

SafeQ tracks and reports total volume of printed pages of an individual user prior his/her printing using YSoft SafeQ Client. SafeQ additionally tracks and reports total volume of printed pages for an individual user prior after his/her authentication at the device using YSoft SafeQ terminal. SafeQ also tracks and reports related costs for pages that has been forced to be printed in monochrome or duplex.

Dependencies

• SafeQ Server must be installed and available within LAN.

• Print roaming or Rule-based Engine must be configured.

• Parser is required for full functionality of Green reporting.

Licensing

Green Reporting is a standard feature included in YSoft SafeQ 5 Suite, module Reporting.