Tracking printing in a network for accounting purposes

摘要

Various systems, methods, and programs embodied in computer readable mediums are provided for tracking printing on a number of printers 106 for accounting purposes. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes the steps of determining an origination location (A, B, C) of a print job, determining a destination printer location (A, B, C) associated with the print job, determining a number of printed pages associated with the print job, determining a print charge to be accessed for printing the print job, and, determining a location (A, B, C) to which the print charge is to be accessed. In an alternative embodiment there is disclosed a print tracking method for accounting purposes which involves periodically polling a number of printers 106 to obtain a printed page count from each of the number of printers 106.