PaperCut NG 9.5

PaperCut NG 9.5 for Mac is considered as a dream tool supported for print management to charge, log and monitor on multi-user networks. The software has been in use to manage printing in Windows environments since 1999 and this is PaperCut Software's first Mac release. The software works by integrating via CUPS and supports advanced feature such as popup client, share accounts, print job filtering based on document attributes, LDAP integration, and release station for secure printing. The Mac version has all the same features as the successful Windows and Linux versions.

PaperCut™ is the leading solution to monitor, quota and report network printing and internet use. PaperCut is renowned for its combination of powerful features and ease-of-use.
PaperCut's unique print quota, print accounting and print control features have been designed to provide organizations with comprehensive reporting and control of their printing.
PaperCut's print management software is tracking millions of users worldwide in over 60 countries and 20,000 organizations.

Major Features:

1. Differential print charging and control       
2. Automated quota allocation system        
3. Active Directory integration        
4. Automatic new user management        
5. Print job filtering and restrictions        
6. TopUp Cards™ / PrePaid Cards       
7. Remote web administration        
8. Detailed reports and charts        
9. Multiple server support        
10. Monitoring of local printers        
11. Printer error notifications    
12. Shared accounts         
13. Print release stations         
14. Windows, Mac, Linux, Novell and Unix versions        
15. Clustered Windows print server support        
16. Scalability to 100,000+ users    
17. External database support         
18. LDAP directory support        
19. Internet bandwidth or time charging       
20. Advanced client 
    
21. Advanced business reports    
22. Best solution for education and normal print monitoring    
23. Best solution for businesses using account based charging.
24. Innovative 100% web-based administration allowing admin control from anywhere on the network.
    
25. Cross-platform support for both servers and clients. Available for Windows, Mac, Linux, Novell and Unix.
    
26. Differential print charging allowing costs to be defined per printer with varied prices for color, duplex and large form printing.
    
27. Quota internet access by integrating with leading proxy servers such as Microsoft ISA Server and Squid.
    
28. TopUp/PrePaid Cards - ideal for student payment management.
    
29. Print release stations for secure printing, or for pay-per-print usage in public libraries or internet cafes.
    
30. Advanced reporting in PDF, HTML and Excel.
    
31. Charge printing to shared accounts - great for allocating printing costs to departments, faculties or cost centers.
    
32. Import users and groups from Active Directory or an LDAP server like Novell eDirectory or OpenDirectory.
    
33. Scalability up to 100,000+ users with the option to take this further with application server clustering.
    
34. Option to use external databases such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, the free Microsoft SQL Server Express or the free/open source PostgreSQL database engine.
    
35. Full support for multiple print servers and monitoring of local desktop printers.
    
36. Error notifications when printers are in error.
    
37. Utilizes the latest development technologies including XML web services and service oriented architecture.
    
38. User tools and client software to allow users to view balance and usage history.
    
39. Self maintaining system requiring minimal administration.
    
40. Open architecture - full documentation and APIs provided to all customers. Source code access available on request.
    
41. Vendor neutral - no hardware vendor or operating system lock-in.
    

Enhancements:

• New features:
• • New manager mode pop-up designed to allow authorized users to perform printing as other users and allocate to accounts. It also allows various cost adjustments to be applied to jobs. A common use for the manager mode popup would be in school/college print rooms where staff print on behalf of other users. See the Client Tool section of the PaperCut NG product tour for a screenshot.
  • Add support for CyberSource payment services in the payment gateway module.
  • Added a new report Shared account security access that lists the shared accounts that each user may access.
  • New options for release stations to better support small, high resolution screens and touch screens: option to display links as buttons, option to scale the size of all elements.
  • Added more ad-hoc report filters to several reports.
  • Added the ability to remove all user balance information (balance history graph, transaction history) from the user web pages. This may be useful in corporate environments where the focus is on account/department tracking.
  • Added new filters to the Jobs Pending Release page in the user web interface: document name, workstation name.
  • New filter for print log tables: minimum and/or maximum pages.
• Enhancements:
• • Improved the charge rates functionality to allow additional cost adjustment types, including per job and per page adjustments. The charge rates feature has been renamed to cost adjustments. Cost adjustments may now be defined at both the global and printer level. This simplifies the configuration when all/most printers have exactly the same adjustments.
  • More flexible quota custom scheduling options, including wildcards for the year and month.
  • Added support for importing user card numbers from the Active Directory description field.
  • The frequency of administrative email error alerts is now configurable via the Options tab.
  • Display the username of the logged in user in the release station.
  • Add support for sending WinPopup/msg notifications from Windows Server 2008.
  • The ad-hoc report department and office filters now accept entering multiple values (a comma separated list), allowing reports to show data from several chosen departments or offices.
  • Added a new filter to the user list page to show users who do not belong to any groups.
  • New client tool option to disable notification area balloon tips (and use dialog boxes instead).
  • The user web interface will now indicate when a user's printing is disabled.
  • The icon next to users in the user list now indicates when a user's account has been disabled.
  • When an invalid line is detected in a shared account import file the warning message now lists the associated line number.
  • Added an option to expand the group selection list on shared account security settings so that very long group names can be displayed.
  • Improved documentation regarding setting up PaperCut in a clustered server environment.
  • Log the IP address of failed login attempts in the application log.
• Fixes:
• • Improved reliability of pop-ups and notification delivery on networks using IPv6 and IPv4 concurrently.
  • Improved stability on Novell OES Linux.
  • Improved reliability of Find Me Printing and job redirection on Novell OES Linux.
  • Improved reliability of Find Me Printing on servers using virus scanners that can interfere with the print job redirection.
  • Fixed issue in the web based release station where status messages would not disappear.
  • Fixed problem displaying web widgets and Vista gadgets in regions that use a comma as the decimal separator.
  • Improved user client authentication pop-up reliability for Mac workstations using an HTTPS proxy.
  • Fixed a rare case where a driver bug may have incorrectly caused a job to be flagged as partially printed - not refunded.
  • Improved reliability of restoring database backups that contain invalid unicode characters.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause installation on Linux systems to take a long time.
  • Fixed problem running the Shared Account List CSV report with a large number of accounts.
  • Fixed a potential issue that could occur when PaperCut connects to SQL Server before SQL Server has fully initialized.
  • Fixed issue where the "last updated" date shown in the database statistics area on the About page may not be correct.
  • Fixed possible issue on Linux in the setup wizard when detecting what kinds of user directories are available.
  • Fixed various documentation and interface wording and typos.
  • Printer compatibility improvements:
  • Page count improvement for recent PCL driver versions for the Canon iR2220/iR3320 PCL5e.
  • Improved support for analyzing unicode documents printed on the Ricoh MP 6000.
  • Improved page-level color detection on Linux.
  • Improve color detection for Ricoh Aficio SP C811DN and other PCL5 printers.
  • Fixed duplex detection issue seen on Lexmark X945e printers.
  • Fixed duplex detection issue when using external duplexer on the Utax 3316 and the Kyocera C5025N.
  • Fixed duplex detection issue seen occasionally on Ricoh Aficio MP C4000 MFDs and related devices when using PCL drivers.
  • Improved page size detection from CAD jobs using Nemetschek print drivers.

• Primary Server Requirements
• • Operating System
  • • Windows 2008/ 2003/ 2000/ Vista*/ XP*
    • (server, advancedserver,enterpris eedition,64-bit edition, workstation*, professional*versions all supported)
    • Microsoft Clustering Services supported at allapplication layers
    • Mac OSX 10.4 or 10.5(Tiger or Leopard)
    • Novell Open Enterprise Server2 (OES2), SP1+
    • Most modern Linux distributions including RedHat,NovellSUSE,Debian,and others.
  • Memory
  • • 384MB minimum supported (512MB or higher recommended)
  • Processor
  • • 500-megahertz (MHz) or higher processor
  • Hard Disk
  • • 240MB,plus additional storage orlogsand print history
  • Printers
  • • Printers that support Post script,PCL(anyversion),PCL-GUI, HPGL,PCLXL,ESC/P2,ESC/PAGE,Ricoh RPCSandothers.
    • Many other printers will be supported on Windows.
    • Networked printers recommended
    • Onnon-Windows systems the CUPSorSamba printsystems are required
  • Internet Proxy
  • • Microsoft ISAServer 2000/2004/2006, MSProxyServer 2.0
    • Squid(on Linux/ Unix or Windows),or
    • Free Proxy
• Client Work station Requirements
• • Operating System
  • • Microsoft Windows Vista/2003/XP/2000/NT4.0/ME/98/95 incl. 64bitversions
    • Apple MacOSX10.3 or higher(Power PC and Intel both supported)
    • Most modern Linux distributions(requires Java5.0)
    • Other systems supporting Java5.0
  • Memory
  • • 128MB or greater
  • Processor
  • • 300-megahertz (MHz) or higher processor
  • HardDisk
  • • 0MB-zero-install deployment (recommended)
    • 70MB-fulllocal installation
• Optional Secondary Server Requirements
• • Operating System
  • • Windows 2008/ 2003/Vista/XP/2000/NT4.0(server, advanced server,64-bit edition,workstation*,professional*versions all supported)
    • Most modern Linux distributionsusing Sambaor CUPS printqueues
    • Mac OSX 10.4 or 10.5
    • Other Unixvariant supon request.(e.g.Solaris,AIX,etc)
  • Memory
  • • 128MB or greater
  • Processor
  • • 300-megahertz (MHz) or higher processor
  • HardDisk
  • • 5MB
  • Printers
  • • Printers that support Postscript,PCL(any version),PCL-GUI,HPGL,PCLXL,ESC/P2,ESC/PAGE,RicohRPC Sand others
    • Many other printers will be supported on Windows.
    • Networked printers recommended
    • On non-Windows systems the CUPSorSambapr int systems are required
• Optional Print Release Station Requirements
• • Operating System
  • • Windows 2008/2003/Vista/XP/2000/NT4.0 incl.64bit versions
    • Mac OS X10.4 or 10.5
    • Most modern Linux distributions
  • Memory
  • • 128MB or greater
  • Processor
  • • 300-megahertz (MHz) or higher processor
  • HardDisk
  • • 0MB-zero-install deployment (recommended)
    • 70MB-full local installation.