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Product Description
Product Benefits
Key Features
Customer Quotes
New features in PaperCut MF 11
How can we track copying?
How can we take payment from our users?
What version is right for me?
Download a free 40 day trial
Return On Investment calculator
Product Screenshots
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Knowledgebase
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Product Description
Overview
ITS resells PaperCut NG and MF in the United Kingdom, Europe and North America and aims to provide a total solution to meet your organisation’s requirements. Our systems start from software only print management solutions built around PaperCut NG and grow to unified print and copy systems powered by PaperCut MF which can also provide support for hardware-based cash acceptors and web-payment.
PaperCut MF allows schools, colleges and universities to track, control and optionally charge for the printing and copying performed by both students and staff. The implementation of a solution reduces paper and toner waste, cuts costs, reduces the impact of your organisation’s paper output on the environment and makes both end-users, be they students or staff, and departments more accountable. PaperCut MF provides access to detailed reports that illustrate the environmental impact of your organisation’s paper output and allow you to make the correct policy and purchasing decisions. PaperCut MF provides genuine cross-platform support and can operate in most networking environments including those that use Active Directory, Novell eDirectory, RM or LDAP for authentication with options to utilise Windows, Novell Open Enterprise (OES), Mac and Linux print servers with full pop-up messaging support on Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix clients.
Product Benefits
- PaperCut MF allows you to track printing and copying from virtually any printer, copier or multi-functional device (MFD) ensuring that all paper output in your organisation is transparent and totally measurable.
- PaperCut MF monitors the printing and copying of every user on your network ensuring that all students and staff are fully accountable for their actions.
- PaperCut MF includes an optional system of user balances allowing your school, college or university to control and limit the amount of printing and copying students and staff can perform, reducing waste and dramatically cutting costs.
- PaperCut MF features rules that can be implemented to cancel or restrict jobs that are sent to inappropriate print devices, regulating the print process and helping to cut costs.
- PaperCut MF reduces paper output waste and helps ensure that the appropriate print device is used assisting your school, college or university to meet its environmental obligations central to today’s green agenda.
- PaperCut MF can discover, track and control any locally installed printers reigning in spending in an area that is notoriously difficult to monitor and control and unlike other solutions this functionality is included as standard.
- PaperCut MF can accommodate automated cash payment options that allow those who wish to charge the ability to do so without the constant involvement of support staff allowing them to focus on core activities. Click here to find out more.
- PaperCut MF offers an online payment module that allows credit and debit cards or even PayPal accounts to be utilised reducing the dependence on cash, which in turn reduces staff involvement with cash collection and security.
- PaperCut MF includes web printing as standard which allows users to print from laptops, PDAs and smart phones via your wireless network without the need to install software or printer drivers hence ensuring inclusivity of print service provision for all users.
- PaperCut MF fits right in with your existing networking infrastructure through its support for Windows, Mac and Linux servers, including Novell Open Enterprise Server (OES), eliminating the need to implement Windows print servers in non-Microsoft environments unless required.
- PaperCut MF keeps your end-users happy and well informed about their print activities through its end-user web portal and pop-up messages that offer the same functionality regardless of whether people are using Windows, Mac, Linux or UNIX clients.
Key Features
- Innovative 100% web-based administration allowing administrative control from anywhere on the network.
- Pop-up messages that communicate with the user informing them of the number of pages of their print job, its cost and asking them if they wish to continue which provide the same experience on Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix clients.
- A system of balances or quotas used to monitor or control the amount of printing or copying.
- A system of Top Up / Prepaid Cards - ideal for student payment management.
- The ability to charge to departmental shared accounts and even restrict printing when the shared account is depleted or an overdraft facility has been fully utilised, great for cost centres, departments and faculties.
- Genuine cross-platform support that allows PaperCut to be installed on Windows, Mac and Linux servers including Novell OES.
- Import users and groups from Active Directory or LDAP servers such as, but not limited to, Novell eDirectory or OpenDirectory.
- Extensive web-based reports which can be exported into HTML, PDF and CSV file formats and scheduled to be automatically delivered by e-mail.
- Secure print release options that only allow the user who submitted the print job to collect it from the printer or multi-functional device (MFD). This can be achieved via a system of web-based print release, print release station software (that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux), hardware terminals connect to MFDs or embedded software running on MFDs.
- Pull printing (we call it Find Me Printing) that allows users to print to a central queue and collect their job from a printer or multi-functional device (MFD) in the location of their convenience at a time to suit.
- Full support for multiple print servers included at no extra cost.
- Options to track and control local printing at no extra cost.
- The ability to control and monitor virtually any copier or multi-functional device (MFD) regardless of whether they are networked.
- Support for an enormous range of page description languages (PDLs) including PCL, PostScript and many more.
- Cluster support allowing for the clustering of both the print and copy control solution, its database and print queues.
- Differential print charging allowing costs to be defined per printer with varied prices for colour, duplex and large form printing.
- Support for plotters and other large format devices.
- An optional web-based payment module that allow users to purchase print and copy credit securely via their browser using their debit and credit cards or PayPal account as required.
- Integration with a wide range of cards for user authentication and balance management including magnetic stripe, barcode or “smart card” technologies such as Mifare, HID and more.
- Support for a range of devices that allow for the automation of cash payments allowing users to pay for printing and copying and top up their accounts via wall or floor mounted value loaders.
- Scalability up to 100,000+ users with the option to take this further with application server clustering.
- Options to use external databases including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, the free Microsoft SQL Server Express or the free/open source PostgreSQL and MySQL database engines.
- Error notifications when printers are in error.
- Utilises the latest development technologies including XML web services and service oriented architecture.
- Self-maintaining system requiring minimal administration.
- Open architecture - full documentation and APIs provided to all customers. Source code access available on request.
- Quota Internet access by integrating with the leading proxy servers such as Microsoft ISA Server and Squid.
- Vendor neutral - no hardware vendor or operating system lock-in.
Customer Quotes
" No paper wastage! Students are still asking for more credits, insisting that they haven't received their full allocation. However, with PaperCut's detailed reports we can see they have used their allowance for the week, with exacting details of everything printed."
Simon Allison
Technical Support Engineer
South Downs College
New features in PaperCut MF 11
How can we track copying?
PaperCut MF provides support for both hardware terminals that can control, standalone, copiers, modern MFDs and other devices such as microfilm/microfiche printers. Alternatively embedded software can be installed on modern MFDs. Click here to find out more.
How can we take payment from our users?
PaperCut NG provides a system of Top Up / Prepaid cards and facilitate over the counter payment. PaperCut MF expands this by providing support for value loaders that automate cash payments and web-payment. Click here to find out more about all the ways to make your users pay!
What version is right for me?
PaperCut is available in two key versions both of which are suitable for Education. PaperCut NG provides a fully featured print management solution, while PaperCut MF provides support for value loaders that automate cash payments and web-payment and includes comprehensive copier and MFD-control. Click here to access our comparison guide in PDF format.
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Download a free 40 day trial
ITS offer a 40-day trial of PaperCut MF once we have discussed your full requirements. Click here to contact us so we can take things a step further.
Return On Investment calculator
To see how PaperCut MF can save you money, please check the ROI calculator which can give you an idea of savings you could make.
Product Screenshots
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Product Tour
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Knowledgebase
PaperCut Software have built up an extensive knowledgebase, which is available online for any interested party to view. Click here to start your search.
Did you know ... ?
PaperCut can track local printing and allows you to implement multiple print servers at no additional cost.