This article is designed for resellers or distributors of PaperCut wanting to add their own branding or logos to the application. These will be displayed in addition to (or in some cases, instead of) the PaperCut logos. It is important to note that this is co-branding support rather than "Blind OEM". The feature is designed to support putting your brand alongside PaperCut rather than entirely replacing the PaperCut brand.

The PaperCut installer for Windows provides support for bundling additional images and files that will be installed along with the application. This enables a reseller to bundle the PaperCut installer along with their branding content to customers such that the branding will take place automatically when the customer installs the application.

After applying to written PaperCut for permission, the bundle may be distributed as a ZIP file, on a USB drive or on CD, to provide some examples.

To make use of this feature create a folder called extensions alongside the installer. I.e. the contents of the parent folder will look like this:

Content under the extensions folder will be automatically copied to the installation location. E.g. extensions/client/win/client-logo.png could be copied to C:\Program Files\PaperCut NG\client\win\client-logo.png after installation.

The following sections provide information about customizing the different components of PaperCut and how these can be bundled with the installer via the extensions folder.

The Client Tool

Information about customizing the client tool is covered in the user manual chapter Advanced Customization -> Customizing the User Client Tool window.

As discussed, the logo on the client tool can be replaced by supplying a client-logo.png file. To supply a client logo with the installer that will be used for all client platforms (Windows, Mac and Linux) place your client-logo.png file in:

The User Web Tools Interface

Information about customizing the user web tools interface is covered in the user manual chapter Advanced Customization -> Customizing the User web pages.

As discussed, custom content is placed in the [app-path]/server/custom/web folder. Placing the custom content in extensions/server/custom/web alongside the installer will ensure that the content is copied at installation time.

For example the bundled content might include:

The Administration Interface

Information about customizing the administration interface is covered in the user manual chapter Advanced Customization -> Customizing the administration web interface.

As discussed, a custom admin header image can be placed at [app-path]/server/custom/web/admin-logo.png. To include the admin header image with the installer, bundle the image at:

Report Headers

Information about customizing report headers is covered in the user manual chapter Advanced Customization -> Customizing Report Headers.

As discussed, a custom report header image can be placed at [app-path]/server/custom/web/report-header.png. To include the report header image with the installer, bundle the image at:

Categories: Resellers

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