Measure and Manage the Cost of Printing
Take control of one of your largest uncontrolled expense categories and optimize your print environment.
Intuitive Dashboards
Quickly visualize key metrics with intuitive dashboards, and allow administrators to drill down to job-level details.
Enterprise-wide Fleet Analytics
Maintain a more efficient fleet and identify under- or over-utilized devices with a comprehensive view on operating costs for all the print devices across your organization.
Learn More About Fleet ManagerView Granular, Job-level Details
Gain clarity on individual users, devices, and print jobs to identify outliers and opportunities for optimization.
Old Way
High-level estimate of enterprise print costs
Separate dashboards for each office, and/or device manufacturer
Reactive, after-the-fact implementation of changes to control costs
With Pharos Insights
Granular details about where, when and how print costs arise across the entire organization
A singular, comprehensive view of enterprise-wide print operations
Quickly identify outliers and top cost-producing users and devices
Simple-to-Deploy and Easy-to-Use
Quickly understand your print operations–Dashboards help visualize your key metrics, and allow administrators to drill down to individual devices, users, and print jobs.
How Our Customers Use Pharos Insights
Explore a few common dashboard modules that help organizations measure
and control the cost of print.
Employee Print Cost
Set a target cost per employee and monitor performance over time.
Volume of Color Printing
Color printing is 3x-5x more expensive than greyscale – ensure that color prints are produced only when it’s necessary.
Outliers
Drill down into areas where usage and costs fall outside of expected variability.
The Print Monitoring Software Technology Behind Pharos Insights
How are print analytics obtained?
Device Scout is deployed onto servers and captures print device metrics such as toner, meters, device status. Print Scout is typically deployed on workstations, capturing user and print job information.
What data is collected?
Once installed, Device Scout and Print Scout collect comprehensive, detailed information about each print job, including who submitted it, when it was submitted, which print device was used, and so on.
This information is sent to Pharos Cloud for print reporting.
Download this Brochure on Pharos Insights, Print Scout and Data Collection
DownloadHow long does Pharos Insights take to deploy?
You can start collecting data within an hour, giving you quick access to valuable, actionable metrics.
Can you control what data gets collected?
Yes, admins have the ability to choose the user data they collect by region (document name, user name, department, etc).
How much have companies saved with Pharos Insights?
Our customers have achieved up to 45% cost savings on their printing costs with the help of Pharos Insights. Some of the biggest savings has been reducing color print volumes.
Can I customize how my Pharos Insights views, or is there a universal, preset view?
Yes, you can create custom views in Pharos Insights, which enables you to decide which data you want to surface according to what’s most relevant. You can also organize data to match your workflow, making it easier to manage and intuitive.
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