PaperCut NG 12.0 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. Setup wizard

2.4. PaperCut NG Configuration wizard

2.5. User sync configuration wizard page

2.6. The Mac installer

2.7. PaperCut NG Configuration wizard

2.8. User sync configuration wizard page

2.9. Creating the host user account - part 1

2.10. Creating the host user account - part 2

2.11. The Novell OES Linux install process

2.12. PaperCut NG Configuration wizard

2.13. eDirectory/LDAP configuration wizard page

2.14. The Linux install process

2.15. PaperCut NG Configuration wizard

2.16. User sync configuration wizard page

2.17. Ensure the advanced popup is enabled

2.18. 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. PaperCut NG requires Mac OS X v 10.3.9 or later

5.10. Connecting to a Windows server

5.11. The PCClient share's connection string

5.12. Add PCClient as a Login Item

5.13. Control-click and open the package contents

5.14. Double-click to install the login hook

5.15. A user's summary information

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

5.17. A list of available shared accounts

5.18. Printing costs as seen by the user

5.19. Internet usage costs as seen by the user

5.20. Using a TopUp/Pre-Paid Card

5.21. Transferring funds to another user

5.22. A user's recent balance transactions

5.23. A user's recent printing

5.24. A user's recent internet usage

5.25. The user's view of jobs pending release

5.26. Web Print jobs in progress

5.27. Mobile user web tools - summary page

5.28. View in Desktop mode link

5.29. Mobile user web tools - balance

5.30. Mobile user web tools - environmental impact statistics

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

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

5.33. The Paper-Less Alliance Desktop Widget

5.34. The Environmental Impact Gadget

5.35. 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

7.1. The Template Printer

7.2. Copy settings from one printer to others

7.3. Printer disabled using a time-latch

7.4. Advanced differential charging example

7.5. Print conversion filters

7.6. Some of the available print restriction filters

7.7. Advanced conversion functionality with print scripting

7.8. Converting student printing to grayscale

7.9. Job Log showing an EMF job

7.10. Select "staff" from the list of groups

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

7.12. Adding an existing printer group

7.13. Three cost adjustments defined at the printer level

7.14. Cost adjustments displayed in the Advanced Client Popup

7.15. Cost adjustments displayed in the Manager Mode Popup

7.16. Turning on popup authentication at the user level

7.17. PaperCut NG client requesting for authentication

7.18. The color detection setting for a printer

7.19. Enabling the hardware check

7.20. Hardware check adjustment options

7.21. Printer properties dialog:

7.22. Printer ports dialog:

7.23. Add port dialog:

7.24. Choose printer port:

7.25. Hardware check status

7.26. Hardware check log status

7.27. An example watermark using variables

7.28. Print Job Log showing the PostScript metadata

7.29. Enabling watermarking in the Admin Console

7.30. Searching job log for signature b608c7a39f08643768051217f2f5315a

7.31. Job Log showing an EMF job

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

7.33. Failure mode settings

7.34. Status of print jobs logged after reconnection

7.35. Toner level information on Printer Details screen

7.36. Enabling end-user print job refund requests

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

7.38. Sending refund request

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

7.40. Overview of user's refund request

7.41. Printer refund request user notification options

7.42. Defining custom printer fields

7.43. 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. The Standard Release Station

10.2. Manager-mode web-based release station

10.3. Web-based release station within the admin pages

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

10.5. All documents easily identifiable by document and machine name

10.6. End-user web based release interface options

11.1. Single Virtual Queue (High School)

11.2. Multiple Virtual Queues (Graphics Department)

11.3. Multiple Location Specific Virtual Queues (Large Company)

11.4. Find Me Printing and Web Based Release Interfaces

11.5. Simple Load Balancing

12.1. The Dashboard Page

12.2. User/group sync source options

12.3. Progress of a user/group synchronization process

12.4. On demand user creation options

12.5. The list of users and groups granted admin access

12.6. The list of users and groups granted admin access

12.7. Options for a single system notification

12.8. Printer error notification settings

12.9. Low toner notification settings

12.10. Error level event notification settings

12.11. Pending refund request notification settings

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

13.1. Entering a batch ID

13.2. Defining a valid till date

13.3. Options to edit the card design

13.4. Enable Macros in MS Word 2007

13.5. Cards ready for printing

13.6. Imported card numbers

13.7. Inserting a new logo into a card

13.8. Propagate labels button in previous versions of MS Word

13.9. Update labels button in MS Word 2007

13.10. Using a card

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

14.2. PaperCut NG Architecture - an advanced configuration

15.1. Example of how Internet Control calculates time used on the Internet

15.2. Application Server, Internet Control module and proxy server all on one system

15.3. Application Server installed with Internet Control module, accessing proxy logs remotely

15.4. Internet Control service installed on proxy server, Application Server on separate system

15.5. Selecting the proxy server type and log file location

15.6. Example output from a test parse of proxy server log files

15.7. Selecting a security group to allow internet access

15.8. Selecting a service account

15.9. Example of Internet Control service status when service is running.

15.10. Internet usage cost settings

15.11. Internet usage cost settings

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

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

16.8. Customized content in the administration interface dashboard

16.9. Example custom report header usage

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

17.2. The print script editor showing a sample script

17.3. Example syntax error in a print script

17.4. Example runtime error in a print script

17.5. Importing a print script recipe

17.6. Importing a print script snippet

17.7. Print Script Client Prompt with HTML formatting

20.1. Web Print architecture overview

20.2. Web Print Server status OK

20.3. Modifying Adobe Reader X's Protected Mode

20.4. The PaperCut Web Print dialog

20.5. Web Print Server status OK

20.6. Web Print link in the user interface

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

20.8. Customizable Web Print introductory message

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

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

20.11. Web Print wizard step 2: account selection options

20.12. Web Print wizard step 3: upload a document

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

20.14. List of active Web Print jobs

20.15. Web Print settings in the admin interface

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

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

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

20.19. Installing the XPS Viewer for Windows Server 2008

21.1. Sharing a printer on Mac OS

21.2. Accessing the installation URL manually, using Safari

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

21.4. The PaperCut App for iPad on the home screen

21.5. The PaperCut App for iPad (before printing)

21.6. Printing from iOS

21.7. Printing (PaperCut) app on the home screen

21.8. Authenticating to the PaperCut iPad App

21.9. The PaperCut App for iPad (after printing)

21.10. Printing from iOS

21.11. Printing (PaperCut) app on the home screen

21.12. Authenticating to the PaperCut App

21.13. The account selection dialog in the PaperCut App

21.14. The PaperCut App for iPad (after printing)

22.1. Web Cashier items

22.2. Web Cashier Purchase example

22.3. Web Cashier Purchase Acknowledgement Slip

22.4. Web Cashier Deposit example

22.5. Web Cashier Deposit Acknowledgement Slip

22.6. Web Cashier default configuration

22.7. Web Cashier user

23.1. Stopping the service and setting to Manual startup

23.2. Creating a new cluster resource

23.3. Cluster service parameters configuration

23.4. Stopping the service and setting to Manual startup

23.5. Adding a new Generic Service Resource

23.6. Cluster service parameters configuration

23.7. Adding a new Generic Service Resource

23.8. PaperCut Application Server Properties configuration

23.9. PaperCut dependencies configuration

23.10. Stopping the service and setting to Manual startup

25.1. PaperCut NG client requesting authentication

26.1. Setting up a printer (direct) on Mac OS 10.5 Server using Jetdirect

26.2. Enable IPP on each queue via Server Admin

26.3. Setting up a workstation printer on Mac OS 10.5

26.4. Printing settings via the Workgroup manager

26.5. Add printer appropriate to the container (users, group, or computer)

26.6. PaperCut Client on Mac OS X

26.7. Add a printer

26.8. Option-click for advanced printer addition types

26.9. Windows printer via Samba

26.10. Connecting to a Windows server

26.11. The PCClient share's connection string

26.12. Add PCClient as a Login Item

26.13. Mac popup authentication dialog requesting username and password

26.14. Add a printer

26.15. Option-click for advanced printer addition types

26.16. Windows printer via SAMBA

26.17. Connecting to a Windows server

26.18. The PCClient share's connection string

26.19. Command-click and open the package

26.20. Double-click to install the login hook

26.21. Turning on popup authentication at the user level

26.22. PaperCut NG client requesting for authentication (Sorry: Windows screen-shot!)

26.23. Windows Component: Other Network File and Print Service

26.24. Add a printer

26.25. Adding an LPR/LPD printer

26.26. Connecting to a Windows server

26.27. The PCClient share's connection string

26.28. Double-click to install the login hook

27.1. Turn off simple file sharing

27.2. Turn off simple file sharing

27.3. Enable perform printing as other user

28.1. Internal users options

28.2. Web based internal user registration interface

28.3. Creating an internal user from the administration interface

28.4. Login screen showing the registration link

28.5. Changing an internal user password from the administration interface

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

29.1. Enabling Multiple Personal Accounts for the first time

29.2. Multiple Account Priorities

29.3. Separate Cash and Quota accounts

29.4. Example of an advanced account setup

B.1. Disable simple file sharing

D.1. ISA Server 2004/2006 - Logging tab

D.2. ISA Server 2004/2006 - Configure Proxy Logging option

D.3. ISA Server 2004/2006 - Using the W3C log file format

D.4. ISA Server 2004/2006 - Applying changed log settings

D.5. ISA Server 2004/2006 - Properties for the internal network

D.6. ISA Server 2004/2006 - Enabling the HTTP proxy

D.7. ISA Server 2004/2006 - Creating a new user set

D.8. ISA Server 2004/2006 - Adding Windows users to a user set

D.9. ISA Server 2004/2006 - Creating a new access rule

D.10. ISA Server 2004/2006 - Allowing the HTTP protocol

D.11. ISA Server 2004/2006 - Setting the internal network as the rule source

D.12. ISA Server 2004/2006 - Applying changed access rule settings

E.1. Database growth using the internal database

E.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