How to Install and Configure PrintVisor

Learn how to install, deploy, and use PrintVisor. Follow the three steps below to get started quickly. 

Quick start

Download & install PrintVisor on your PC

1. Download & install PrintVisor on your PC

Visit the download page to get the latest version of PrintVisor.

Create a new company account

2. Create a new Company Profile

At the first launch, PrintVisor will prompt you to create a Company Profile in order to collect and display centralized data in the Admin Panel. To do it, open PrintVisor and switch to the Profile tab. Then, click the Create new profile button or the Link this PC to existing profile button and follow the procedure.

  • If you are the PrintVisor administrator (the person who monitors printers in the organization), use the Create new profile button (no matter whether you registered before or not). The program will check the entered email and associate your PC with the previously created or newly created Profile automatically.
  • If you are not the PrintVisor administrator, use the Link this PC to existing profile button. Then, enter the Company ID number (you can get it from the PrintVisor administrator), and follow further on-screen instructions.
Connect other PCs to company account

3. Install PrintVisor on other PCs & add them to the Company Profile

To monitor all the printers within the organization, you’ll need to add all computers that have connected printers (including PCs with access to network printers). This will allow PrintVisor to collect print-related data in the entire organization. See the instructions below on how to add more PCs to your Profile.

How to add PCs to your Company Profile

There are 3 ways to link other PCs with printers to the Company Profile.

  • From the PrintVisor app. On a PC which you want to link, open PrintVisor → Profile tab → click the Link this PC to existing profile button and follow on-screen instructions.
  • Using a .PVZ file. Download a small file called PVZ activation file and run it on all other computers where you want to enable printer monitoring. To get the PVZ file, open Admin Panel → Settings Get activation file.

    Watch short tutorial video: How to link other PCs to your Company Account

  • Remotely from the command line. Install PrintVisor and link computers remotely (silent deployment via command line):

To install and run the program in the background mode:

printvisor.exe -client -profile C12345678RO1234

To install and run the program in normal mode (not in the background) and open the interface:

printvisor.exe -quiet -profile C12345678RO1234

To install the program in normal mode (not in the background) and run in it system tray only:

printvisor.exe -quiet -nogui -profile C12345678RO1234

Congratulations! You have installed and set up PrintVisor in your company environment. The administrator can now watch what is printed by all users, how much resources it takes, and when is the right time to buy new supplies.

After linking users to your Company Profile, you can:

How to use PrintVisor

To use the software most effectively, learn what you can do in the interface and the Admin Panel.

FAQ

You create the company profile only once to unite all printers via the Company Profile ID. Once the account is created and other PCs are linked to it, all data will be collected and tracked remotely by PrintVisor. If you haven’t created a company profile yet, go to the Profile tab, and click the Create new profile button.

The Admin Panel is a web dashboard where you can find more summary data on printers, computers, printer statistics, and print activity. Here you’ll see various data on PCs, printers connected to them, users and files which they print, ink levels, logs, and stats.

With the login (email or Company Profile ID), the PrintVisor administrator can have personal access or grant access to other employees (for example, an office manager). Other employees who do not have access will see the program in the background mode, only as an icon in the Windows tray.

Those who don’t need to watch printers and print statistics should use the program in the background mode. You switch it on either in the Admin Panel or by clicking the Switch to background mode in the Account tab of the interface. In this mode, the standard interface is not available. The program will work in the background (system tray). You will need the administrator’s approval if you want to switch back to the “normal” mode.<

The easiest way of getting data from multiple computers and printers is by collecting it on a web server. That’s why we designed a web dashboard where you can see printers’ real-time statuses and other print-related data, even from your smartphone. If you need a solution that works locally without Internet access, please contact us and describe your request.

For security reasons, the document names and user names in the program’s interface and the Admin Panel are partially hidden behind asterisks (*). Serial Numbers (SN) or ID numbers do not relate to those of real printers or users. Therefore, any personal data or information that can identify an individual is not exposed.

File names are hidden for security reasons

It is possible to remove the asterisks by request. If you want to see all file names and it does not violate GDPR regulations or another law in your country that is related to personal data, we can switch off the asterisk symbols and display the full document names. Please contact us, and we may offer you a custom solution if that’s an issue.

The program can be installed manually or automatically via the command line. In addition, auto-updates can be easily switched on in the Admin Panel to avoid distracting the employees.

You can remotely install PrintVisor on multiple PCs from the command line.

With PrintVisor, you can find out the computer from which a specific file was printed and when it was done. You can view Recently printed documents in the printer’s profile (double-click the printer’s name in the PrintVisor application) and in the Admin Panel as well.

Real-time printer status and additional information on each connected device are located on the Printers tab. You can double-click each printer to see its statistics in detail.

PrintVisor communicates with printers to get data from them:

  • Every 10 seconds, when the interface’s Printers tab is open.
  • Every hour, when PrintVisor is in Background mode or the interface window is minimized.

Usually, the fastest or the closest printer is selected for printing; this is convenient. However, in a large office, this can lead to losses of time. With large print queues, an employee can wait a long time until their document is printed out. Therefore, it is a good idea to evenly distribute the print load on all office printers according to their capabilities. Using PrintVisor, you’ll see which printers are heavily loaded in the Printers tab and the Admin Panel.

Ink or toner supplies may run out at an unexpected time, or prints will fade. If you have many printing devices, keeping track of their supplies is necessary – and PrintVisor can help with it. Printer monitoring not only can optimize consumption and reduce costs but also helps to maintain a smooth workflow in a modern office.

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