Keeping track of an entire collection of printers across an enterprise is still more of an art than a science. Various printer fleet-monitoring tools are available from most of the major printer vendors, including HP’s Web JetAdmin, Toshiba’s Encompass and Xerox’s Office Document Assessment. These tools are useful for IT administrators with relatively single-vendor, homogeneous printer populations, but are not very helpful for printer VARs that want to monitor a mixture of vendor products and keep track of the different printer portfolios at multiple clients.

You can download the white paper, which I wrote for Synnex, here.