The invention provides a method and a device for analyzing service condition of a printer. The method for analyzing the service condition of a printer comprises: obtaining information related to a plurality of printing tasks executed on the printer from at least one printer, wherein the information related to the printing tasks at least comprises a printing demander, the printing document attribute and the printing time of each printing task; and converting the information related to the printing tasks to the organization structural representation according to organization structure information including the printing demander. In the invention, an entity having a consuming mode is identified by acquiring the historical use data of the printer so as to accelerate the new design on service procedure associated with the entity; and the printing strategy optimization is performed on each organization unit associated with the printer according to the acquired historical use data so as to reduce the unnecessary paper consumption.