Embodiments disclosed herein relate to compiling and reporting printing
statistics in a printing system. In an embodiment, a data gathering unit
may be configured to query print servers for print events (e.g.,
occurring in a period of time); parse each print event according to a set
of attributes (e.g., user ID, time, print volume, document name, printer
ID, etc.); and output each parsed print event to a storage medium (e.g.,
a database). The data gathering unit may be further linked to a user
database (e.g., an employee directory in an enterprise-type system), and
configured to associate each print event with one or more extended
attributes (e.g., employee name, department name, location, etc.). An
interface unit may be configured to provide for customized query and
report based on the print events stored in the storage medium.