HP DesignJet T790 and T1300 Printer Series - Using your printer
14. Set Send accounting les every to the frequency with which you want the information sent, choosing a
specic number of days or prints.
15. You may want to set Exclude personal information from accounting email to On, so that the accounting
messages will not contain personal information. If this option is O, information such as user name, job
name, and account ID will be included.
When you have completed the above steps, the printer will send accounting data by email with the frequency
that you specied. The data are provided in XML and can easily be interpreted by a third-party program. The data
provided on each print job include when the job was submitted, when the job was printed, the printing time, the
type of image, the number of pages, the number of copies, the paper type and size, the amount of each color of
ink used and various other attributes of the job. Accounting data are also provided on scan and copy jobs.
You can download an Excel template from HP's Web site (http://www.hp.com/go/designjet/accounting) that will
enable you to display the XML data more readably in the form of a spreadsheet.
Analysis of the accounting data will enable you to bill customers precisely and exibly for the use of your printer.
You can, for instance:
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Bill each customer for the total amount of ink and paper used by that customer over a particular period.
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Bill each customer separately per job.
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Bill each customer separately for each project, broken down by job.
NOTE: In some circumstances Excel may lose or misplace the decimal point in a number: for instance, the
number 5.1806 may be misunderstood as 51806 and displayed as 51,806. This is an Excel problem that cannot
be solved by HP.
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