Most organizations don't use PaperCut to "charge" their users. In an education-based organization, PaperCut is more often used to restrict users to a sensible quota - for example $5.00 a week. In business, PaperCut can be installed in a "silent logging" mode (see Print Logging), enabling the tracking of statistics. With PaperCut's logging it's possible to track; who prints the most, how much each departments prints, and which printers are the most used.

For this reason, some organizations like to remove the currency symbols from the PaperCut web tools and [Legacy] Deploying the PaperCut Quota User Client Tool. Only small configuration changes are needed in order remove the currency symbols.

To remove the currency sign in PaperCut NG

The currency sign can be removed in PaperCut NG with the following procedure:

• Log in to the admin web pages
• Go to the Options tab
• In the Display section disable the currency display option
• Press the Apply button

Also See: Why currency / unit based print accounting is better than counting pages

To remove the currency sign in PaperCut Quota's Web Tools

To remove the currency symbols from the PaperCut web tools, a registry setting needs to be changed. To do this perform the following steps:

• Open 'regedit' on the PaperCut server running the web tools
• Navigate to the following location

        HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\PaperCut

• Double-click the 'WebShowCurrency' registry key to edit it
• Change the value to 0 to disable the displaying of the currency symbol
• Close regedit

If you refresh one of the web tools screens you will notice that the currency symbols are no longer displayed.

To remove the currency sign in PaperCut Quota's User Inquiry Tool

To remove the currency symbols from the [Legacy] Deploying the PaperCut Quota User Client Tool you need to modify the 'setup.txt' file in the C:\Program Files\PaperCut\PCSetup prior to installing the [Legacy] Deploying the PaperCut Quota User Client Tool on your workstations. (Note: If you've done a zero-install deployment, this can be done at any time)

You need to set the 'HideCurrencySign' to 1. i.e. HideCurrencySign=1

Note: If you have already installed the [Legacy] Deploying the PaperCut Quota User Client Tool, you'll find the setup.txt file in the PaperCut program folder on each workstation. Again you can edit the document here.

More details can be found in the [Legacy] Customizing the User Client Tool article.

Keywords: charging, users, currency, symbol, sign, dollar, quota units

Categories: Configuration