Patent ID: 8312378

Claim:
A system for organizing and displaying configuration information associated with at least one digital printing apparatus, the system comprising: a processor; a communications interface operably connected to the processor and configured to establish an operable connection to at least one remotely located printing device; and a computer readable medium operably connected to the processor, wherein the computer readable medium comprises one or more programming instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to: request configuration information from the at least one printing device, receive the configuration information from the at least one printing device, wherein the configuration information comprises one or more parameters of the at least one printing device relating to two or more of the following categories of configuration information: controller configuration information associated with a controller of the at least one printing device, one or more optional controller features of the at least one printing device, print engine configuration information associated with the at least one printing device, information pertaining to media installed on the at least one printing device, one or more communication parameters associated with the at least one printing device, and information pertaining to one or more licenses associated with the at least one printing device, format the configuration information such that the configuration information is displayable in a window within a user interface, display the configuration information in the window within the user interface such that the configuration information is organized and displayed in the window by category of information, display one or more interactive features in the window within the user interface, wherein the one or more interactive features comprise a change log feature, receive a selection of the change log feature; and in response to receiving the selection of the change log feature, generate a log of changes to the configuration information that occurred over a time period.