PaperCut
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Excess printing incurs huge costs on educational/academic institutions in both hidden and explicit ways. Are you looking for ways to cut back? Over 20,000 K-12 schools, colleges and universities worldwide use PaperCut NG to control costs.
The education IT environment is unique. User turnover is high and networks are dynamic. From its first release ten years ago, PaperCut has always been designed by education network administrators specifically for the education environment.
Key features for education at a glance:
- Control student print quota, or charge for printing.
- Track and budget staff printing by faculty or department.
- Simple installation - starts working immediately.
- Directory integration with automatic user account creation.
- Simple web-based administration for office staff.
- Automatic scheduling of credit/quotas.
- Solutions for managing wireless laptop printing.
- Runs on Windows, Mac, Linux and Novell, making PaperCut the most flexible and integrated management solution available.
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- Features & Benefits
- Tech Specs
- PaperCut Capabilities
Save Paper
Save paper and money, by promoting responsible use |
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Track Printing
Detailed logs to give you the who, what, when and where |
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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 |
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Manage Printing
Be proactive! Use PaperCut to monitor printing, encourage sensible use and find pain points |
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Reporting
Get access to the most important data in realtime - straight from your web browser, from anywhere on your network. |
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Track Copying
PaperCut NG is able to track the network printing use of any MFP or Copie
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Manage Wireless Printing
Manage wireless and unauthenticated printing from user-owned devices . |
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Limit Internet Useage
Limit internet usage by time or data. May be used as well as or instead of print control.
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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
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Memory |
- 768MB minimum supported (1GB or higher recommended)
Most modern print servers should have a base of 2GB to 4GB of memory.
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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
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Internet Proxy |
(Only required for Internet Quotas)
- Microsoft ISA Server 2000/2004/2006, MS Proxy Server 2.0
- Squid (on Linux/Unix or Windows)
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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
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Memory |
- Most modern client workstations are configured with 2GB to 4GB of memory, PaperCut requires a minimal 256MB.
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Hard Disk |
- 0MB - zero-install deployment (recommended)
- 100MB - full local installation (Most modern client workstations have 60GB to 250GB of storage available.)
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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
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Memory |
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Hard Disk |
- 0MB - zero-install deployment (recommended)
- 70MB - full local installation
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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.
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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.
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Licensing |
- True enterprise-wide licensing: unlimited printers, servers and workstations.
- Licenses are based on monitored user numbers.
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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.
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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!
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User Directory Services |
- Active Directory (native integration including nested groups and OUs)
- Apple OpenDirectory
- Apple OpenDirectory
- eDirector
- LDAP
- NIS, PAM, Samba, and others
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Server Operating Systems
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- 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)
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Workstation Operating Systems
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- 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)
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Database Servers
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- 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
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Clustering Environments
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- Microsoft Failover Cluster Manager
- Microsoft Cluster Server
- Veritas Cluster Server
- Linux HA
- MySQL 5.0 or higher
- Novell Cluster Services
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Security & Encryption
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- SSL encryption used for sensitive client-server communications
- Option to install a signed SSL certificate.
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Web Browsers
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- Internet Explorer 7, 8, 9
- Mozilla Firefox 3, 4 and above
- Apple Safari
- Google Chrome
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