PaperCut Software useful for managing, sharing and printing quota between users. This application is for a local area network or shared printer between different users in many applications. With this program supervision on the use of paper and the printing process will be users. Users can easily see the number of printed pages and print details. So the user how much paper being consumed in a certain time interval is how many print and other statistical information to ease by this program will be at your disposal.
This allows different restrictions for network users. You can divide users into separate groups and certain restrictions defined for each group. One of the interesting features of this software can automatically assign tasks to your user. For example, you want to save on printer ink consumption to lower the quality of printed documents, automatically convert to black and the like. Note that these features can be found in addition to a particular person or a particular user applied for different groups. Automatically add watermark to printed documents as well as the possibility of there. This is to increase document security features are very useful. This software has been used in 50 thousand different organizations and beneficial results have followed.
Features and Software PaperCut:
Beautiful environment and ease of use of the program
Ability to view data printing and print resources consumed by different users
Ability to define different user groups and restrictions or perform automated tasks
Defining automatic operation, such as when printing black and white documents or add watermark
System Requirements
PaperCut MF is a cross-platform print monitoring application that runs on all major operating systems, X86_64 and AMD64 (non-ARM).
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.
Capabilities
Scalability
Suitable for networks from 5 to 500,000+ users.
Browser based admin interface – simple for small sites yet powerful for large sites.
Architecture
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).
International: Available in 20+ languages and currency formats world wide.
Licensing
True enterprise-wide licensing: unlimited printers, servers and workstations.
Licences are based on the number of devices running the PaperCut MF embedded software by copier brand.
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, XPS, Ricoh RPCS, Epson ESC, QPDL, various GDI printers and many languages that don’t even have names!
User Directory Services
Active Directory (native integration including nested groups and OUs)
Apple OpenDirectory
Azure Active Directory
eDirectory
Google Cloud Directory
This functionality is available for organizations using:
G Suite Education
G Suite Enterprise for Education
G Suite Enterprise
Cloud Identity Premium
LDAP
OpenLDAP
NIS, PAM, Samba, and others
Security & Encryption
SSL encryption used for sensitive client-server communications.
Option to install a signed SSL certificate.
Database Servers
(optional)
Self managing internal database: suitable for up to 5,000 users*
Microsoft SQL Server (64-bit) 2022 / 2019 / 2017 / 2016
Microsoft SQL Express 2022 / 2019 / 2017 / 2016 (free from Microsoft)
Microsoft Azure SQL (Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance)
PostgreSQL 12.0 or later
MySQL 8.0 or later
Oracle 19.1.0 / 12.2.0.3 or later
Clustering Environments
(optional)
Microsoft Failover Cluster Manager
Microsoft Cluster Server
VMware High Availability Cluster
Linux HA
Novell Cluster Services
Application / Site Server Requirements
Operating System
Microsoft Windows (64-bit) Server 2022 / 2019 / 2016 / Windows 11 / Windows 10
Apple macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later
Microsoft Clustering Services supported at all application layers
Most modern Linux (64-bit) distributions including Red Hat 8.0+, Ubuntu 16.0+, Novell SUSE 15.0+, Debian 11.0+, and others (requires GNU glibc 2.28 or higher)
Memory
2GB minimum supported (4GB or higher recommended)
Hard Disk
3GB, plus additional storage for logs and print history. When using Print Archiving (off by default), a minimum of 100GB of free disk space is recommended.
Mobility Print Server Requirements (Optional)
Operating System
Microsoft Windows (64-bit) Server 2022 / 2019 / 2016 / Windows 111 / Windows 101
Apple macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later
Most modern Linux (64-bit) distributions including:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (6.0+)
CentOS (6.0+)
SuSE Linux (12.0+)
Ubuntu (14.0.4 LTS+)
Debian (10.0+)
Others supporting GNU glibc 2.11 or higher
Memory
2GB minimum supported (4GB or higher recommended)
Hard Disk
At least 3GB of free space recommended.
Client Requirements
Microsoft Windows (64-bit) Windows 11 / Windows 10
macOS 11+ (Big Sur)
iOS 15+
Android 11.0+
Chrome OS with Chrome version 69+
Printer Requirements
Mobility Print works with the vast majority of printers. The key requirement is that the printer has a print driver for the server host operating system (e.g. a Windows driver).
Print Release Station Requirements (Optional)
Operating System
Microsoft Windows (64-bit) Server 2022 / 2019 / 2016 / Windows 11 / Windows 10
Apple macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later
Most modern Linux distributions (requires Java 8.0 or later)
Other systems supporting Java 8.0 or later
Memory
1GB or greater
Hard Disk
0MB – zero-install deployment (recommended)
70MB – full local installation
Web Print Sandbox Requirements (Optional)
Operating System
Microsoft Windows (64-bit) Server 2022 / 2019 / 2016 / Windows 11 / Windows 10
3rd Party Software Requirements
Adobe Reader DC or later (optional, internal PDF renderer is used in the absence of Adobe Reader)
Microsoft Office 2021, 2019, 2016 and Office 365 (to support Office formats)
Memory
2GB minimum supported (4GB or higher recommended)
Hard Disk
At least 3GB of free space.
Client / Workstation Requirements
Operating System
Microsoft Windows (64-bit) Windows 11 / Windows 10
Apple macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later
Most modern Linux distributions (requires Java 8.0 or later)
Other systems supporting Java 8.0 or later
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.
Web Browsers
Google Chrome (110 and later)
Apple Safari (14 and later)
Microsoft Edge (110 and later)
Mozilla Firefox (115 and later)
Locally hosted (on-premise) OCR Server Requirements
Operating System
Microsoft Windows (64-bit) Server 2022 / 2019 / 2016
Resources
Depends on usage mode.
Port Requirements
Port 9181 (HTTPS) inbound TCP to the Locally hosted (on-premise) OCR Server
PaperCut version
Requires PaperCut MF 19.0 or later installed on the application server
Print Deploy Requirements
Printers and drivers
Print Deploy works with the vast majority of printers. This includes, but is not limited to, print languages such as PostScript, PCL5, PCL5e, PCL6, XPS, Epson ESC/P2, Canon UFR, UFRII and more.
Windows
The following driver requirements must be met before Print Deploy will clone the print queue:
The driver must have an INF file (Setup Information file).
The driver must be digitally signed and package aware.
The driver is not a virtual driver like a PDF printer. In other words, the print queue has to point to a physical device or in the case of a Direct Print Find-Me setup, to a local nul-port.
Client requirements
Microsoft Windows (64-bit) Windows 11 / Windows 10
