HP Designjet T2500 eMultifunction Printer series - Manual (Page 148)

Accounting statistics with the HP Utility
1. Access the HP Utility, see Access the HP Utility on page 45 .
2. Under Windows, select the Job center and then Accounting, which launches the Embedded Web Server.
Under Mac OS X, select Job Accounting and click the Look Up button.
Accounting statistics with the Embedded Web Server
1. Access the Embedded Web Server, see Access the Embedded Web Server on page 45 .
2. Go to the Main tab.
3. Select History > Accounting.
Request accounting data by email
1. Obtain the IP address of the outgoing mail server (SMTP) from your IT department; this is required in
order to send email messages.
2. Ensure that the outgoing email server is configured to enable relaying of email messages that the
printer will send.
3. Open your Web browser and connect to the printer’s Embedded Web Server.
4. Select the Setup tab.
5. From the Configuration menu in the left-hand column, select Date & Time.
6. Ensure that the printer's date and time have been set correctly.
7. From the Configuration menu, select Email server.
8. Enter the IP address of the outgoing mail server (SMTP).
9. Specify an email address for the printer. The latter does not need to be a valid email address; but it
should have the form of an email address. It serves to identify the printer when it sends email
messages. See
Turn usage information on and off on page 31 .
10. From the Configuration menu, select Printer settings.
11. In the Accounting section, if you set Require account ID to On, then every time someone sends a print
job to the printer, he or she must provide an account ID: for example, an ID corresponding to his or her
department or to a specific project or client. If someone sends a job without providing an account ID, the
printer will hold the unidentified job in the queue without printing it until an account ID is provided.
If you set Require account ID to Off, then the printer will print all jobs whether or not they have an
account ID.
12. Set Send accounting files to Enabled.
13. Set Send accounting files to to the email address (or addresses) to which you want the accounting
information sent. This may be an address that you have created specifically to receive automatically
generated messages from the printer.
14. Set Send accounting files every to the frequency with which you want the information sent, choosing a
specific 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 Off, information such as
user name, job name, and account ID will be included.
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