HP Designjet T1300 ePrinter - Manual (Page 132)

an account ID, the printer will hold the unidentified job in the queue without printing it until an
account ID is provided.
If you set Require account ID to Off, then the printer will print all jobs whether or not they have
an account ID.
12. Set Send accounting files to Enabled.
13. Set Send accounting files to to the email address (or addresses) to which you want the
accounting information sent. This may be an address that you have created specifically to receive
automatically generated messages from the printer.
14. Set Send accounting files every to the frequency with which you want the information sent,
choosing a specific number of days or prints.
15. You may want to set Exclude personal information from accounting email to On, so
that the accounting messages will not contain personal information. If this option is Off,
information such as user name, job name, and account ID will be included.
When you have completed the above steps, the printer will send accounting data by email with the
frequency that you specified. The data are provided in XML and can easily be interpreted by a third-
party program. The data provided on each print job include when the job was submitted, when the job
was printed, the printing time, the type of image, the number of pages, the number of copies, the paper
type and size, the amount of each color of ink used and various other attributes of the job. Accounting
data are also provided on scan and copy jobs.
You can download an Excel template from HP's Web site ( http://www.hp.com/go/designjet/
accounting ) that will enable you to display the XML data more readably in the form of a spreadsheet.
Analysis of the accounting data will enable you to bill customers precisely and flexibly for the use of
your printer. You can, for instance:
● Bill each customer for the total amount of ink and paper used by that customer over a particular
period.
● Bill each customer separately per job.
● Bill each customer separately for each project, broken down by job.
NOTE: In some circumstances Excel may lose or misplace the decimal point in a number: for
instance, the number 5.1806 may be misunderstood as 51806 and displayed as 51,806. This is an
Excel problem that cannot be solved by HP.
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