Save Paper Save paper and money, by promoting responsible use		Track Printing Detailed logs to give you the who, what, when and where
Quota Printing Particularly popular in schools, colleges and universities, print quotas are used to control and restrict users to sensible use by allocating a quota/allowance/budge		Manage Printing Be proactive! Use PaperCut to monitor printing, encourage sensible use and find pain points
Reporting Get access to the most important data in realtime - straight from your web browser, from anywhere on your network.		Track Copying PaperCut NG is able to track the network printing use of any MFP or Copie
Manage Wireless Printing Manage wireless and unauthenticated printing from user-owned devices .		Limit Internet Useage Limit internet usage by time or data. May be used as well as or instead of print control.

PaperCut is a cross-platform print monitoring application that runs on all major operating systems. The system has been designed to support all platforms for both the client and the server components and to scale from small businesses with 5 users all the way to the largest education sites with 500,000 users or more

Primary Server Requirements

Operating System	Windows 2008 / 2008 R2 / 2003 / 2000 / Windows 7* / Vista* / XP* (core, server, advanced server, enterprise edition, 64-bit edition, workstation*, professional* versions all supported) Microsoft Clustering Services supported at all application layers Apple Mac OS X (10.7, 10.6, 10.5 or 10.4) Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 Linux (OES 2 Linux) - SP1, SP2 (with hotfix applied) or SP3 Most modern Linux distributions including Red Hat, Novell SUSE, Debian, and others
Memory	768MB minimum supported (1GB or higher recommended) Most modern print servers should have a base of 2GB to 4GB of memory.
Hard Disk	300 MB, plus additional storage for logs and print history Most modern print servers should have a base of 60GB to 500GB of storage available
Internet Proxy	(Only required for Internet Quotas) Microsoft ISA Server 2000/2004/2006, MS Proxy Server 2.0 Squid (on Linux/Unix or Windows)

Client Workstation Requirements

Operating System	Microsoft Windows 7 / Vista / 2003 / XP / 2000 / NT 4.0 / ME / 98 / 95 incl. 64-bit versions Apple Mac OS X 10.3 or higher (PowerPC and Intel both supported) Most modern Linux distributions (requires Java 5.0) Other systems supporting Java 5.0
Memory	Most modern client workstations are configured with 2GB to 4GB of memory, PaperCut requires a minimal 256MB.
Hard Disk	0MB - zero-install deployment (recommended) 100MB - full local installation (Most modern client workstations have 60GB to 250GB of storage available.)

Optional Print Release Station Requirements

Operating System	Windows 2008 / 2003 / Windows 7 / Vista / XP / 2000 / NT 4.0 incl. 64-bit versions Apple Mac OS X (10.7, 10.6, 10.5 or 10.4) Most modern Linux distributions (requires Java 5.0) Most modern Linux distributions
Memory	128MB or greater
Hard Disk	0MB - zero-install deployment (recommended) 70MB - full local installation

PaperCut is a cross-platform print monitoring application that runs on all major operating systems. The system has been designed to support all platforms for both the client and the server components and to scale from small businesses with 5 users all the way to the largest education sites with 500,000 users or more

PaperCut Capabilities

Scalability	Suitable for networks from 5 to 500,000+ users. Browser based admin interface - simple for small sites yet powerful for large sites.
Achitecture	Suitable for single server environments to multi-server, multi-site and clustered environments. Capable of monitoring locally attached or workgroup printers. Powerful yet optional user client software (not required for print monitoring). nternational: Available in 20+ langauges and currency formats world wide.
Licensing	True enterprise-wide licensing: unlimited printers, servers and workstations. Licenses are based on monitored user numbers.
Open Systems	Open and documented API, scripting interface, and database schema. XML Web Services API with helpful source code examples Report data in CSV/Excel, PDF and HTML.
Printers	Almost all major laser, inkjet, label and wide-format printers/MFDs/plotters. Supported print languages: PCL, PCL6, HPGL, Postscript, PCL-GUI, Ricoh RPCS, Epson ESC, QPDL, various GDI printers and many language that don't even have names!
User Directory Services	Active Directory (native integration including nested groups and OUs) Apple OpenDirectory Apple OpenDirectory eDirector LDAP NIS, PAM, Samba, and others
Server Operating Systems	Microsoft Windows (32 and 64-bit) Apple Mac OS X Linux (any modern 32 or 64 bit distribution) Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 Linux (OES 2 Linux)
Workstation Operating Systems	Microsoft Windows (32 and 64-bit) Apple Mac OS X Linux (any modern 32 or 64 bit distribution) Unix workstations (Java required to run PaperCut Client Software)
Database Servers (optional)	Self managing internal database: suitable for up to 5,000 users. Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/2008R2 (either 32 or 64 bit) Microsoft SQL Express 2005/2008 (free from Microsoft) PostgreSQL 7.1 or higher MySQL 5.0 or higher Oracle 9.2 or higher
Clustering Environments (optional)	Microsoft Failover Cluster Manager Microsoft Cluster Server Veritas Cluster Server Linux HA MySQL 5.0 or higher Novell Cluster Services
Security & Encryption	SSL encryption used for sensitive client-server communications Option to install a signed SSL certificate.
Web Browsers	Internet Explorer 7, 8, 9 Mozilla Firefox 3, 4 and above Apple Safari Google Chrome

Monitor printing, eliminate waste
Track printer usage and print costs by user. Detailed reports help to identify excessive printing, improve printer utilization and eliminate waste.

Assign print quotas and limits
Limit excessive printing, restrict print jobs by number of pages, prohibit duplicate jobs, deny or limit color printing and encourage responsible use.

Chargeback printing costs
Bill individuals, departments or group accounts for actual printing costs. Or implement pay-per-use printing using convenient print cards and payment gateway options.

Save money and trees
Save up to 70% in printing costs by eliminating unnecessary printing, reducing waste and encouraging responsible resource use.

Easy to implement and use
Manage all your networked printers centrally using an intuitive web-based interface that provides all the tools you need to identify and correct problems of waste and misuse.

Scalable cross-platform support
Enterprise level print control, scalable to 60,000+ users. Completely cross-platform, supports Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix.

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Monitor and Limit Printing with PrintLimit Pro

Save up to 70% on runaway printing costs with Netop PrintLimit Pro print management software. With PrintLimit Pro you can monitor, restrict or analyze all student printing in your school or university.

Manage all printers
Supervise network print activity from any browser window. Access dozens of standard pre-built reports covering users, printers and shared accounts. Modify user's account balance and view full transaction history

Control printer use
Limit charge back or set print quotas on printer activity for any user on the network. Set limitations or restrictions for expensive print jobs or color printers. Automatically deny duplicate print jobs. Supports print-release stations.

Recover costs
Assign print expenses to individuals, groups or cost centers. Recoup paper and toner costs from departments and end users. Issue fee-based print cards to users to recover the cost of printing. User friendly tools help manage print accounts.

 

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PrintLimit Pro: The IT Perspective

PrintLimit Pro provides IT administrators with powerful and flexible tools to manage and control printing costs at schools, universities, libraries and businesses. PrintLimit Pro provides a scalable and intuitive interface combined with advanced budgeting and reporting tools that make it the premier solution for controlling printing costs in complex multi-platform environments.

• Enterprise level print control - scalable up to 20,000+ users
• Limit, charge-back or log print jobs on a per user basis

Administration tools
PrintLimit Pro provides system administrators with a kit of tools to manage printers, including:

• Advanced print document/job filtering
• Detailed logging and reporting
  
• Improved network reliability through implementation of rules to prevent printer queue jams, queue hogging and inappropriate printing types
  
• Automatically e-mail reports to specified administrators

Key IT management features

• Track all printing activity by user, client, printer and document metadata
  
• Control printing by enforcing per user print quotas, allowances or budgets
  
• Full differential print cost/charging system allowing different costs to be assigned one a per printer basis
  
• Advanced options to charge different amounts based on document type
  
• Hardware neutral solutions support all major printer types and operating systems - no hardware vendor lock-in!
  
• Both cross-platform and multi-platform support - run a mix of Windows and/or Linux print servers and support clients ranging from Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix.
  
• Provides end-users with management options such as funds transfers, usage tracking and reporting
  
• Provides end-users with advanced options to allocate print jobs to shared accounts, cost centers, facilities or departments
  
• Single sign-on user authentication with native integration with Active Directory or the system's underlying user management (no separate passwords to manage!)
  
• Service Oriented Architecture utilizing the latest software design nethods including: test driven development, XML web services and layered architecture. This ensures scalability and stability by design.

"We were hemorrhaging paper. There was no accountability for student printing in place, so they printed anything and everything, in multiple copies."

Kathy Hausmann, Coordinator of Student Computing, St. Mary's College

"Since we began using PrintLimit Pro software our heaviest-use printer on campus has printed on average one-third less than it did over the sames time last academic year."

Keith Fowlkes, Chief Information Officer, St. Mary's College

Operating System		Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista or Windows 7 (Server, Advanced Server, Enterprise Edition, 64-bit Edition, Workstation*, Professional* all supported)
		Linux** including Red Hat, Novell SUSE, Debian and most others
		Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5 (Tiger, Leopard or Snow Leopard)
Memory		384 MB minimum supported (512MB or higher recommended)
Processor		500 Mhz or higher processor
Hard Disk		150 MB, plus additional storage for logs and print
Printers (if hosting printers)		Printers that support Postscript, PCL (any version), PCL-GUI, HPGL, PCLXL, ESC/P2, ESC/PAGE, Ricoh RPCS and others
		Many other printers supported on Windows
		Networked printers recommended
		On non-Windows systems the CUPS or Samba print systems are required
User ID/Username		Active Directory, Windows NT or LDAP user ID/username

Operating System		Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, 2003, XP, Vista or Windows 7
		Linux - Most modern distributions (requires Java 5.0)
		Apple Mac OS x 10.4 (requires Java 5.0)
		Other systems supporting Java 5.0
Memory		128 MB or greater
Processor		300 MHz or higher
Hard Disk		0 MB for zero-install deployment (recommended)
		70 MB for full local installation

 

Operating System		Windows 2008, 2003, Vista, XP, 2000, NT 4.0 (Server, Advanced Server, 64-bit Edition, Workstation*, Professional* all supported)
		Most modern Linux** distributions using Samba or CUPS print queues
		Mac OS X 10. 4 or 10.5
		Other Unix variants upon request (e.g.g Solaris, Aix, etc.)
Memory		128 MB minimum supported (512 MB recommended)
Processor		300 MHz or higher
Hard Disk		5 MB
Printers (if hosting printers)		Printers that support Postscript, PCL (any version), PCL-GUI, HPGL, PCLXL, ESC/P2, ESC/PAGE, Ricoh RPCS and others
		Many other printers supported on Windows
		On non-Windows systems the CUPS or Samba print systems are required
User ID/Username		Active Directory, Windows NT or LDAP user ID/username

 

Operating System		- Windows 2008, 2003, Vista, XP, 2000, NT 4.0, Windows 7
		- Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5
		- Most modern Linux distributions
Memory		128 MB or greater
Processor		300 MHz or higher
Hard Disk		0 MB - Zero install deployment (recommended)
		70 MB - full local installation

* Windows XP, Windows 2000 Professional and Windows NT Workstation only allow 10 simultaneous connections. Therefore these operating systems can only be used for print servers when less than 10 users are connecting at one time.

** SELinux should be disabled prior to installing

The PrintLimit Pro Payment Gateway module provides universities and other organizations implementing pay-per-use printing with the ability to enable students and other users to purchase printing credits via credit cards, PayPal and other standard systems.The PrintLimit Pro Payment Gateway Module is an additional component that provides services that allow users to transfer funds from an external source into their personal Print-Limit Pro account. Examples of its use include:

Online payment

Larger organization such as universities or colleges may wish to provide online payment via 3rd services such as those provided by banks or organizations like PayPal and VeriSign. The payment interface may be provided for internal use (i.e. for student-only use), or opened up for external access to allow parents to make payments via the web. The Payment Gateway module can hook into a number of leading service providers or may be quickly adapted to fit others.

Student fee/management systems

A number of leading higher education organizations use the Payment Gateway module to allow students to transfer small amounts of credit into their print account. At the end of semester/term, this amount is totaled up and added to their fees/loan. The Payment Gateway module can be configured to automatically debit the student management records or an external database system.

Cashless systems

Organizations that use a centralized point-of-sale (POS) system to manage cashless payment on campus can benefit from the PrintLimit Pro Payment Gateway. These systems provide a database of users and interfaces/API's to withdraw funds from a centralized database. The Payment Gateway module can be configured to use these API's to transfer/withdraw funds from the central database.

Custom applications

The Payment Gateway module supports plug-ins and can quickly be customized to support other 3rd party systems. The customization can be performed by either the PrintLimit Pro development team or internally using your own development staff/skills. Contact support for development options and/or API documentation.

Here you will find the data sheets, case studies, user's manuals and other documentation for Print-Limit Pro, the award-winning print management software from Netop.

• PrintLimit Pro Data Sheet 
• Netop Administration Brochure
• Case Study: College Teaches Students Accountability in Printing Accountability, Cuts Expenses with PrintLimit Pro Print Management Software
• Netop PrintLimit Pro User's Guide
• Netop PrintLimit Pro Implementation Guide

Print Manager Plus is a software only print management product. It is licensed per a single print server running Windows Server or Workstation NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008. The product install changes nothing in the Windows infrastructure and relies only upon the standard Windows print subsystem.

Larger organizations running Windows Clustered servers, and Terminal Services or CITRIX based networks are also fully supported!

The scalability of Print Manager Plus has been engineered for any size Workgroup, Network, or Enterprise. If you are a small school with only 2 printers or a University Department with 100 students, or an entire campus with multiple locations and thousands of students and printers, Print Manager Plus can be easily installed and administered. Scalable to any size, it will audit, track, restrict, and secure your printing infrastructure.

Administrators hold on because Print Manager Plus will do the work for you. Product usability is way in the future, with an easy installation and setup, and complete integration with Windows Server, Print Manager Plus will literally run itself.

The complete data and control provided by the product will save you thousands of dollars in printing costs and teach your users to print responsibly.

With over 10 years of experience in the Print Management arena and by surveying and listening to our customers it has made Print Manager Plus the #1 Print Management software in the world, which is used in thousands of Schools, Universities, Libraries, Corporations, Governments, and Individual consultants.

Supporting our customers is our #1 priority, and to do this we have through the years created a network of over 125 resellers and distributors in over 65 countries. Our own internal sales and support staff is offered in 13 languages fluently, which gives us one of the highest customer maintenance renewal retention rates in the industry.

Print Manager Plus installs on any Windows Server or Workstation NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008. The product install changes nothing in the Windows infrastructure and relies only upon the standard Windows print subsystem.

Larger organizations running Windows Clustered servers, and Terminal Services or CITRIX based networks are also fully supported!

We offer our customer additional Agents and Options to use with Print Manager Plus. Below is a list of these with all additional features that are included.

Some of these agents are free and can be downloaded and used with your purchase of Print Manager Plus. The Workstation Connected Printer Agent and the Release Station Option are charged for. Call or check our online pricing for licensing information.

Add Credits Option

This option allows an Administrator to add credits or set unlimited printing to a User Account being monitored by Print Manager Plus. There are also two search options that will show users by drop down menu or a text search of the name can be done to find a specific user.

The program is web based and can be installed on your IIS Server with a simple installation option.

This program is given to our customers at NO CHARGE

Authentication Module

Requirements: Installs on Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista Workstation and Macintosh OSX, Runs with Print Manager Plus 2008 Client Billing and Authentication FULL, SBE, and SOHO versions only.

This application is only shipped with Print Manager Plus 2008 with Client Billing and Authentication. The Windows or Macintosh version of the Module installs on the workstations that you would like to authenticate printing from. The program can be manipulated by the Print Manager Plus service to change based on the authentication permissions you set for the user.

The Authentication Module can be installed on as many workstations as the customer needs. The product is given at NO CHARGE.

Print Manager Plus takes print management to a new level with robust client billing and authentication features. Below are some examples of these features.

Client Billing Verification and Authentication Settings

Client Billing Verification and Authentication settings are specified on a per Print Printer basis. You can access these settings by opening the properties of each printer within the Printers Tab. You will find these settings under the Authentication tab for each printer.

End User Inquiry Tool

Requirements: Installs on Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista Workstation.

This application is designed to assist the end user in understanding what is occurring with their printing. The Tool installs on Windows workstations allowing them to view their current balance; it will also notify them when and why a print job has been restricted. When installed on the workstation it will only reside in the Task Tray located in the bottom left hand corner. The User can mouse over it, or double click on it to view their balance information.

As mentioned above, the program serves a dual purpose. It can be used to receive pop-up messages from the Print Manager Plus Service. This will only occur if the Microsoft Messenger Service on the Server and Workstation are turned off, if not Print Manager Plus will automatically use the Microsoft Messenger Service to send its pop-ups.

The End User Inquiry Tool can be installed on as many workstations as the customer needs. The product is given at NO CHARGE.

Release Station Option

Requirements: Installs on IIS Server running on your print server only .NET, SP 1.

This option provides several key features listed below:

Holds Jobs for Review and Release: Administrators or Users can view jobs held in the print queue by Print Manager Plus, and release or delete them.
Print Jobs can be released based on:

• User Name
• Workstation
• Document Name
• Printer Name
• Pages
• Time Submitted
• Job Cost
• Page Size
• Color
• Duplex

Allows end user print jobs to be held, until that user logs in with their Active Directory Account to review and release their own print jobs when ready or at the print station.

Allows users to pay for print jobs, or add balance with a Credit Card via PayPal merchant services.
Can be used as a pay station for a Library, Computer Lab or other setup where print jobs need to be held and reviewed or until they are paid for.

The program is web based and can be installed on your Print Server within IIS with a simple installation option. Only one license must be purchased for the entire site.

Remote Report Viewer

Requirements: Installs on Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista Workstation.

This application based product can be installed on a workstation and allows the user to connect to the Print Manager Plus database remotely. It will allow the user to run any report Print Manager Plus provides and export or print the report.

The Remote Report Viewer can be installed on as many workstations as the customer needs. The product is given at NO CHARGE.

Workstation Connected Printer Agent

Requirements: Installs on Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista Workstation.

This application based product can be installed on a workstation and allows the Administrator to Monitor, Quota, and Restrict printing on the locally attached printer and any users printing to that workstation connected printer.

This tool is great for companies that have locally attached workstations that they cannot monitor or Large Format Printers that they do not want to send large print jobs over the network to through their print server.

Once the product is installed on the workstation the Workstation Connected Printer Service will appear under the services tab in Print Manager Plus. Also all printers locally attached to that workstation will appear under the printers tab. The local service can be Stopped, Started, and Restarted remotely. The service can also be updated remotely using E-Update.

There is a charge for this product. It is licensed per workstation with a locally connected printer.

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