HP CM8060/CM8050 Color MFP - Print Usage Tracker

Introduction

The CM8060/CM8050 Edgeline firmware release version 20091130 77.018.0 provides a new

page counting methodology, known as the Print Usage Tracker feature, which can be enabled if

desired. Current page counting methods were designed to enable efficient service and support. The

Print Usage Tracker feature implements new page counting methods which are more aligned with

today’s job accounting needs.

The administrator or owner of the product has the option either to enable the new counting method or

to do nothing. If the new counting method is enabled the device cannot return to the previous

counting method. It is important to understand this. If the feature is not enabled, nothing will

change on the device and it will continue to count pages the same as it originally did from the

factory.

This document will provide an overview of how the Print Usage Tracker change will influence a

product’s page counting capabilities. Device administrators and product owners should review this

information in order to make an informed decision to permanently enable the new counting behavior

or to stay with the original factory counting behavior.

What will change if the new page counting method is

enabled?

If the new page counting method is enabled, the product’s behavior for incrementing and presenting

duplex page count information will change. This page count information is viewable from two places:

printed Usage Page and the Embedded Web Server (EWS) Usage Page.

The list below provides information for which values will change and how those changes will be

counted on both Usage Pages. All of the changes listed below apply to both the printed Usage Page

and the EWS Usage Page. See Figure 1 and Figure 2 for sample Usage Pages with the changes

noted to match the bullet points below (A, B, C, etc.).

A) Duplex counts for each Color Quality (Professional, Professional – Color Accent, General

Office, and General Office – Color Accent) or Black Only will count only sides where ink has

been applied and will not increment for sides that do not contain ink.

B) Duplex counts in the Black Only table will only increment by a value of one for each side of a

duplex sheet of paper where only black ink is applied.

C) Duplex counts in each of the Color Quality tables (Professional, Professional – Color Accent,

General Office, and General Office – Color Accent) will only increment by a value of one for

each side of a duplex sheet of paper where color ink is applied.

Example:

A four page document is printed in duplex mode with the Professional print

quality selected. The first page of the document contains color, the second page of the

This does not apply to copy jobs. Copy jobs scan images into the copy pipeline using a CCD scanner. When this

process is performed, it is similar to taking a picture of the original. Because of how this technology works, the device

does not have the ability to determine whether the original contains an image on the page and therefore if a blank page

is copied, the copy system will still count the page as a Black Only or Color page based on the original setting for the

copy.

The CM8060/CM8050 Edgeline products support the Smart Duplex feature. With the Smart Duplex feature enabled, if

a duplex job contains an odd number of pages then the last sheet of paper (which will be blank on one side) will not be

processed through the duplex paper path. For such sheets of paper, the Simplex count will increment by one instead of the

Duplex count. This feature is enabled by default and can be access on the Control Panel at Administration >> Device

Behavior >> Tray Behavior >> Duplex Blank Pages.