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Wasted print jobs

My company has over 180 employees who use centralized printers throughout our buildings. Specifically, we need to cut down on the number of print jobs that are never retrieved.

We are also looking at user education regarding wastage printing. What is another method of making users accountable for the print jobs they send to the printers?

We would also like to minimized the amount of legwork (i.e., touching every PC) in accomplishing this task. We presently use a mix of HP and Dell printers. We are on an AD domain as well.
 Any suggestion is welcome.
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"That way they have to walk to the printer and enter the code in order for it to print." That reminds of "The Office" episode when they gave their employees like 20 digit codes they had to use to print. :)
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Another open would be to use software like PaperCut Print Logger which would be connected to the printers and would report the user's pages printed and username. It could be setup to email their supervisor if they reach a certain limit as well.
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A printer is a peripheral which makes a persistent human readable representation of graphics or text on paper or similar physical media. Traditional printers are being used more for special purposes, like printing photographs or artwork, and are no longer a must-have peripheral; 3D printing has become an area of intense interest, allowing the creation of physical objects. An image scanner is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting, or an object, and converts it to a digital image. Hand-held scanners, where the device is moved by hand, have evolved from text scanning "wands" to 3D scanners used for industrial design, reverse engineering, test and measurement, orthotics, gaming and other applications.

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