Sustainable development suggestion for printing systems

Suppliers of printing management systems (like Pcounter, Equitrac, Uniflow, Papercut, etc.) should include actual paper orders (amounts and costs) in their software. Then organisations can clearly show the paper purchased, which is actually used by that printing system. This business process could be automated and data supplied by the paper supplier, so no extra work is needed by the organisation’s printing management systems administrator.
This will then show the efficiency, actual paper use, by the printing system, clearer carbon savings and the leakage that is used on other printers and the waste and loss.

Even if that paper was limited to just the basic bulk A4 & A3, 80gsm white paper, it would give a much clearer picture of printing across our organisations.

This paper provision should be part of the standard build and not an extra cost or add-on option.

What next could they consider adding in the software: Card costs? Electricity cost? Floor space cost? Toner cost? Machine rental /lease/ purchase or click costs? Service costs? Parts costs? What about the actual cost of the printing management system, on and off-line value loaders, cloud printing, and the annual licences costs?

Why not make printing management systems more accountable, and have some whole life costs, built-in and not an extra and make the real cost of printing management systems totally transparent.