PaperCut NG 14.3 User Manual

List of Figures

1.1. The user client tool

1.2. The User Client account selection popup

1.3. The Windows print queue

1.4. PaperCut NG Architecture - an advanced configuration

2.1. Network printer configuration

2.2. Configuring Windows print queue permissions

2.3. Configuring Windows print queue client rendering

2.4. Setup wizard

2.5. PaperCut NG Configuration wizard

2.6. User sync configuration wizard page

2.7. The Mac installer

2.8. PaperCut NG Configuration wizard

2.9. User sync configuration wizard page

2.10. Creating the host user account - part 1

2.11. Creating the host user account - part 2

2.12. The Novell OES Linux install process

2.13. PaperCut NG Configuration wizard

2.14. eDirectory/LDAP configuration wizard page

2.15. The Linux install process

2.16. PaperCut NG Configuration wizard

2.17. User sync configuration wizard page

2.18. Ensure the advanced popup is enabled

2.19. The account selection popup (displaying extra accounts)

4.1. Application navigation tabs

4.2. The Actions area. Click to perform the action.

4.3. Buttons to validate and save settings

4.4. The crumb trail highlighting the location

4.5. A red status message indicating a validation error

4.6. A field highlighted indicating a validation error

4.7. Application navigation tabs

4.8. Adjusting a user's credit up $10.00

4.9. A 40% discount applied to double-sided printing

4.10. Printer Filters and Restrictions

4.11. A printer disabled for 1 hour

4.12. The user client displaying the "Advanced Account Selection Popup"

4.13. The user client tool

4.14. User 30-day account balance history

4.15. Printer utilization chart

4.16. Print page history for a single printer

4.17. Printer report in PDF

4.18. Printer usage log

4.19. User account transaction log

5.1. PaperCut user client on Mac OS X

5.2. PaperCut user web pages

5.3. Example of customized user web pages

5.4. The user client balance window

5.5. The user client's confirmation popup

5.6. The user client's standard account selection popup

5.7. The user client's advanced account selection popup

5.8. PaperCut Client on Mac OS X

5.9. Deploying an MSI package as part of a Group Policy

5.10. Configuring a startup application in Group Policy Manager

5.11. Upgrading an MSI package as part of a GPO

5.12. Toast Notification (panel at top right) in Metro Mode

5.13. Connecting to a Windows server

5.14. The PCClient share's connection string

5.15. Add PCClient as a Login Item

5.16. Control-click and open the package contents

5.17. Double-click to install the login hook

5.18. A user's summary information

5.19. Draw a user's attention to their environmental impact

5.20. A list of available shared accounts

5.21. Printing costs as seen by the user

5.22. Using a TopUp/Pre-Paid Card

5.23. Transferring funds to another user

5.24. A user's recent balance transactions

5.25. A user's recent printing

5.26. The user's view of jobs pending release

5.27. Web Print jobs in progress

5.28. Environmental Dashboard

5.29. Windows live tile sample

5.30. Tile sample: 5 stars

5.31. Tile sample: Organization C0₂ use

5.32. Tile sample: Organization tree consumption

5.33. Tile sample: Organization weekly printed sheets

5.34. Tile sample: Tip to use grayscale

5.35. Tile sample: User energy use

5.36. Mobile user web tools - summary page

5.37. View in Desktop mode link

5.38. Mobile user web tools - balance

5.39. Mobile user web tools - environmental impact statistics

5.40. Mobile user web tools - redeem TopUp/Pre-Paid Card

5.41. Mobile user web tools - entering a TopUp/Pre-Paid Card number

5.42. The Paper-Less Alliance Desktop Widget

5.43. The Environmental Impact Gadget

5.44. The Print Balance Gadget

6.1. Adding/removing groups

6.2. The Group Details screen

6.3. Initial settings applied to new users

6.4. Setting a user's overdraft to $20.00

6.5. User printing disabled using a time-latch

6.6. View/edit department history link on User Details page

6.7. Department history page with date to change highlighted

6.8. View/edit department history link on User Details page

6.9. Link to delete a historical department (or office) change.

6.10. Department history page after having deleted a historical change

6.11. Enabling Username Aliasing

6.12. Username alias field on the User Details page.

6.13. Active Directory sync option for username aliasing

7.1. The Template Printer

7.2. Copy settings from one printer to others

7.3. Printer disabled using a time-latch

7.4. Standard charging example

7.5. Advanced differential charging example

7.6. Print conversion filters

7.7. Some of the available print restriction filters

7.8. Advanced conversion functionality with print scripting

7.9. Converting student printing to grayscale

7.10. Job Log showing an EMF job

7.11. Select "staff" from the list of groups

7.12. Adding a new printer group "Type:Color"

7.13. Adding an existing printer group

7.14. Three cost adjustments defined at the printer level

7.15. Cost adjustments displayed in the Advanced Client Popup

7.16. Cost adjustments displayed in the Manager Mode Popup

7.17. Turning on popup authentication at the user level

7.18. PaperCut NG client requesting for authentication

7.19. The color detection setting for a printer

7.20. Enabling the hardware check

7.21. Hardware check adjustment options

7.22. Printer properties dialog:

7.23. Printer ports dialog:

7.24. Add port dialog:

7.25. Choose printer port:

7.26. Hardware check status

7.27. Hardware check log status

7.28. An example watermark using variables

7.29. Print Job Log showing the PostScript metadata

7.30. Enabling watermarking in the Admin Console

7.31. Searching job log for signature b608c7a39f08643768051217f2f5315a

7.32. Job Log showing an EMF job

7.33. Job Log showing a ESC/P2(Epson) job

7.34. Failure mode settings

7.35. Status of print jobs logged after reconnection

7.36. Toner level information on Printer Details screen

7.37. Enabling end-user print job refund requests

7.38. A [Request Refund] link on the Recent Print Jobs

7.39. Sending refund request

7.40. Approving a refund request from the Refunds tab in the admin interface.

7.41. Overview of user's refund request

7.42. Printer refund request user notification options

7.43. Defining custom printer fields

7.44. Custom printer fields

8.1. Selecting a shared account with the User Client popup

8.2. Creating a shared account

8.3. The template account

8.4. Template account settings

8.5. Client / Matter Naming Model example

8.6. Searching accounts by client name in the client/matter code naming model

8.7. Searching accounts by client code in the client/matter code naming model

8.8. Searching accounts by matter name in the client/matter code naming model

8.9. Searching accounts by matter code in the client/matter code naming model

8.10. Project / Phase Naming Model example

8.11. Searching accounts by project name or number in the project/phase code naming model

8.12. Searching accounts by phase in the project/phase code naming model

8.13. Selecting a shared account from the popup

8.14. The user's popup settings under User -> User Details

8.15. Setting up shared account security

8.16. The standard account selection popup

8.17. Client popup options defined on a per-user basis

8.18. The print job confirmation dialog (no account selection options)

8.19. The advanced account selection popup

8.20. The manager mode popup

8.21. Account selection option to automatically charge to a shared account

8.22. Configuration allowing only selection of other user accounts

8.23. Popup requesting the user to enter their username and password

9.1. An example report displaying different date ranges

9.2. Selecting Ad-hoc date ranges and filters for reports

9.3. Printer log PDF report

9.4. Clickable report icons to run reports in different formats (PDF, HTML, CSV (Excel)).

9.5. Filters applied to the shared account print log

9.6. The Scheduled Reports page

10.1. Multi-Server and Multi-Site Deployments Multi Site/Multi Print Server deployment

10.2. Multi-Server and Multi-Site Deployments Single Server deployment

10.3. Multi-Server and Multi-Site Deployments Multi Site/Multi Print Server deployment

10.4. Multi-Server and Multi-Site Deployments Multi Site/Multi PaperCut Server deployment

10.5. Central Reports across multiple application servers

10.6. Central Reports Status Tab

11.1. The Standard Release Station

11.2. Manager-mode web-based release station

11.3. Web-based release station within the admin pages

11.4. End-user web-based interface listing held jobs

11.5. Mobile Print Release listing held jobs

11.6. Web based Print Release showing Override option

11.7. Selecting a Shared Account when using the Override option

11.8. All documents easily identifiable by document and machine name

11.9. End-user web based release interface options

12.1. Single Virtual Queue (High School)

12.2. Multiple Virtual Queues (Graphics Department)

12.3. Multiple Location Specific Virtual Queues (Large Company)

12.4. Find Me Printing and Web Based Release Interfaces

12.5. Simple Load Balancing

13.1. The Dashboard Page

13.2. User/group sync source options

13.3. Progress of a user/group synchronization process

13.4. Card/ID number Sync Options

13.5. On demand user creation options

13.6. The list of users and groups granted admin access

13.7. The list of users and groups granted admin access

13.8. The list of users and groups granted admin access

13.9. Options for a notification sent before a held job gets deleted

13.10. Options for a single system notification

13.11. Card/Id number Notification Option

13.12. Printer error notification settings

13.13. Low toner notification settings

13.14. Error level event notification settings

13.15. Pending refund request notification settings

13.16. Draw a user's attention to their environmental impact

14.1. Entering a batch ID

14.2. Defining a valid till date

14.3. Options to edit the card design

14.4. Enable Macros in MS Word 2007

14.5. Cards ready for printing

14.6. Imported card numbers

14.7. Inserting a new logo into a card

14.8. Propagate labels button in previous versions of MS Word

14.9. Update labels button in MS Word 2007

14.10. Using a card

15.1. Secondary server reporting back to primary server (application server)

15.2. PaperCut NG Architecture - an advanced configuration

16.1. Customizing the user client link

16.2. Customized user client link

16.3. A customized end-user web designed for St Mary's Anglican Girls School

16.4. A customized end-user web designed for Williamstown High School

16.5. Login Page with custom instructions

16.6. Adding a new custom navigation link to the user web interface

16.7. Example custom navigation link in the user web interface

16.8. Deleting a custom navigation link

16.9. Customized logo (admin-logo.png) in the administration interface

16.10. Customized logo (admin-main-logo.png) in the administration interface

16.11. Customized content in the administration interface dashboard

16.12. Example custom report header usage

16.13. Customized design of Mobile Print Release for WilTown School

17.1. Single Sign-on Configuration

18.1. Print Policy Pop-up (as implemented in the Print Policy Recipe)

18.2. The print script editor showing a sample script

18.3. Example syntax error in a print script

18.4. Example runtime error in a print script

18.5. Importing a print script recipe

18.6. Importing a print script snippet

18.7. Print Script Client Prompt with HTML formatting

21.1. Supported Environments

21.2. Google Cloud Print and PaperCut

21.3. Publishing Printer

21.4. Google Cloud Print Setup Wizard

21.5. Google Request for Permissions Window

21.6. Printer published to Google Cloud Print

21.7. Sharing a printer on Mac OS

21.8. Accessing the installation URL manually, using Safari

21.9. The "Install Profile" dialog, displayed after accessing the installation URL

21.10. The PaperCut App for iPad on the home screen

21.11. The PaperCut App for iPad (before printing)

21.12. The PaperCut App for iPhone(before printing)

21.13. Printing from iOS

21.14. Printing (PaperCut) app on the home screen

21.15. Authenticating to the PaperCut iPad App

21.16. The PaperCut App for iPad (after printing)

21.17. The PaperCut App for iPhone (after printing)

21.18. Printing from iOS

21.19. Printing (PaperCut) app on the home screen

21.20. Authenticating to the PaperCut App

21.21. The account selection dialog in the PaperCut App

21.22. The PaperCut App for iPad (after printing)

21.23. The PaperCut App for iPhone (after printing)

21.24. Email to Print workflow

21.25. Email to Print configuration

21.26. Web Print architecture overview

21.27. The PaperCut Web Print dialog

21.28. Web Print Server status OK

21.29. Web Print link in the user interface

21.30. The front Web Print page before any jobs have been submitted

21.31. Customizable Web Print introductory message

21.32. Web Print wizard step 1: list of printers available for Web Print

21.33. Web Print wizard step 2: selecting the number of copies for a Web Print job

21.34. Web Print wizard step 2: account selection options

21.35. Web Print wizard step 3: upload a document

21.36. Web Print wizard step 3: document upload in progress

21.37. List of active Web Print jobs

21.38. Web Print settings in the admin interface

21.39. Web Print: selecting a printer from the list, which may be replaced with a map or custom list

21.40. Web Print: printer selection map with a simple floor plan

21.41. Web Print: printer selection map with a simple site plan

21.42. Installing the XPS Viewer for Windows Server 2008

21.43. Select a Class Driver

21.44. The Mobile Print Release printer list

21.45. An empty job list

21.46. Jobs display in a held jobs list

21.47. Showing the details of a job in the held job list

21.48. Selecting the disired jobs in the held job list

22.1. Grid view is a great way to locate jobs visually

22.2. Inspecting a print log in the full screen viewer. The viewer toolbar supports navigation, zoom, image rotation and PDL file download.

22.3. Print Archiving options on the Options tab

22.4. The print job viewer showing the download PDL option in the toolbar

22.5. The print job viewer showing the remove option in the toolbar

23.1. Web Cashier items

23.2. Web Cashier Purchase example

23.3. Web Cashier Purchase Acknowledgement Slip

23.4. Web Cashier Deposit example

23.5. Web Cashier Deposit Acknowledgement Slip

23.6. Web Cashier default configuration

23.7. Web Cashier user

24.1. Stopping the service and setting to Manual startup

24.2. Creating a new cluster resource

24.3. Cluster service parameters configuration

24.4. Stopping the service and setting to Manual startup

24.5. Adding a new Generic Service Resource

24.6. Cluster service parameters configuration

24.7. Adding a new Generic Service Resource

24.8. PaperCut Application Server Properties configuration

24.9. PaperCut dependencies configuration

24.10. Stopping the service and setting to Manual startup

26.1. PaperCut NG client requesting authentication

27.1. Setting up a printer on Mac OS 10.7 Server using Jetdirect

27.2. Enable IPP on each queue via Server Admin

27.3. Setting up a workstation printer on Mac OS 10.7

27.4. Publishing printers using Server Admin on Mac 10.7

27.5. Setting up a printer on Mac OS 10.8 / 10.9 Server using Jetdirect

27.6. Sharing printers for a print queue in Mac OS 10.8 / 10.9

27.7. Setting up a workstation printer on Mac OS 10.8 / 10.9

27.8. Publishing printers using Server Admin on Mac 10.8

27.9. Connecting the printers to the Mac OS X server

27.10. Installing the PaperCut Client software

28.1. Turn off simple file sharing

28.2. Turn off simple file sharing

28.3. Enable perform printing as other user

29.1. Internal users options

29.2. Web based internal user registration interface

29.3. Creating an internal user from the administration interface

29.4. Login screen showing the registration link

29.5. Changing an internal user password from the administration interface

29.6. Changing an internal user password from the user web page

29.7. Setting up anonymous printing

29.8. Setting a delegate for the guest-user account

30.1. Enabling Multiple Personal Accounts for the first time

30.2. Multiple Account Priorities

30.3. User payment accounts

30.4. Separate Cash and Quota accounts

30.5. Example of an advanced account setup

A.1. Customized Print Job Notification window

B.1. Disable simple file sharing

D.1. Database growth using the internal database

D.2. Database growth using a Microsoft SQL Server database

H.1. Client Popup Confirmation Window

H.2. Printing balance window showing $10.00 of printing balance

H.3. Printing balance icon in the system tray

H.4. Printing denied message

H.5. Shared Account Selection Popup

H.6. Printing balance icon in the system tray

H.7. Printing denied message

H.8. Login screen

H.9. Print jobs waiting in a release station

H.10. Job Log

H.11. Refunding print job

H.12. Approving a refund request from the Refunds tab in the admin interface.

H.13. Overview of user's refund request

H.14. Balance window showing the Details link

H.15. Redeem Card page

H.16. Printing using PDF Creator or XPS Document Writer

H.17. Web Print link

H.18. Web Print front page showing active jobs

H.19. Instructions for using the system

H.20. Choosing the printer

H.21. Enter the number of copies

H.22. Upload a document