10 Retrieving printer usage information
Get printer accounting information
There are dierent ways of getting accounting information from your printer.
● View printer usage statistics for the whole lifetime of the printer, see Check usage statistics on page 94.
● View ink and paper usage for each of your recent jobs, see Check usage statistics for a job on page 96.
● Use a third-party application to request printer status, printer usage or job accounting data from the printer
through the Internet. The printer provides data in XML to the application whenever requested. HP provides
a Software Development Kit to facilitate the development of such applications.
Check usage statistics
Check usage from the front panel
Tap on the front panel to display the usage information.
The following information can be retrieved:
● In the tab Print categories usage, you can see the ink, paper area, and paper length usage divided into
categories:
– Mono lines: Black-and-white jobs printed on standard paper
– Color lines: Color jobs printed on standard paper
– Low density image: Between 10% and 50% of pixel coverage printed on standard paper
– High density image: Over 50% of pixel coverage printed on standard paper
– Premium quality image: Any content type printed on premium paper
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