System Requirements

PaperCut is a cross-platform print monitoring application that runs on all major operating systems. The system has been designed to support all platforms for both the client and the server components.

Primary Server Requirements
Operating System
  • Windows 2008 / 2008 R2 / 2003 / 2000 / Windows 7* / Vista* / XP*
    (server, advanced server, enterprise edition, 64-bit edition, workstation*, professional* versions all supported)
    Microsoft Clustering Services supported at all application layers
  • Apple Mac OS X (10.6, 10.5 or 10.4)
  • Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES 2 Linux), SP1 & SP2 (with hotfix applied)
  • Most modern Linux distributions including Red Hat, Novell SUSE, Debian, and others†
Memory 512MB minimum supported (1GB or higher recommended)
Hard Disk 300 MB, plus additional storage for logs and print history
Printers
(if hosting printers)
  • Printers that support Postscript, PCL (any version), PCL-GUI, HPGL, PCLXL, ESC/P2, ESC/PAGE, Ricoh RPCS and others.
  • Many other printers will be supported on Windows.
  • Networked printers recommended
  • On non-Windows systems the CUPS or Samba print systems are required
Internet Proxy
(for Internet quota/control module)
 (Only required for Internet Quotas)
Client Workstation Requirements
Operating System
  • Microsoft Windows 7 / Vista / 2003 / XP / 2000 / NT 4.0 / ME / 98 / 95 incl. 64-bit versions
  • Apple Mac OS X 10.3 or higher (PowerPC and Intel both supported)
  • Most modern Linux distributions (requires Java 5.0)
  • Other systems supporting Java 5.0
Memory 128MB or greater
Hard Disk
  • 0MB - zero-install deployment (recommended)
  • 70MB - full local installation
Optional Secondary Server Requirements
Operating System
  • Windows 2008 / 2008 R2 / 2003 / Windows 7 / Vista / XP / 2000 / NT 4.0 (server, advanced server, 64-bit edition, workstation*, professional* versions all supported)
  • Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES 2 Linux), SP1 & SP2 (with hotfix applied)
  • Most modern Linux distributions using Samba or CUPS print queues†
  • Apple Mac OS X (10.6, 10.5 or 10.4)
  • Other Unix variants upon request. (e.g. Solaris, AIX, etc)
Memory 128MB or greater
Hard Disk 5 MB
Printers
  • Printers that support Postscript, PCL (any version), PCL-GUI, HPGL, PCLXL, ESC/P2, ESC/PAGE, Ricoh RPCS and others
  • Many other printers will be supported on Windows
  • Networked printers recommended
  • On non-Windows systems the CUPS or Samba print systems are required
Optional Print Release Station Requirements
Operating System
  • Windows 2008 / 2003 / Windows 7 / Vista / XP / 2000 / NT 4.0 incl. 64-bit versions
  • Apple Mac OS X (10.6, 10.5 or 10.4)
  • Most modern Linux distributions
Memory 128MB or greater
Hard Disk
  • 0MB - zero-install deployment (recommended)
  • 70MB - full local installation
* The "desktop" class systems such as Windows Vista, XP, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows NT Workstation only allow 10 simultaneous connections (see Microsoft article). This means that these systems should only be used as a "server" to host print queues on networks with 10 workstations or less.
† SELinux should be disabled prior to installing.

Our college has tried other packages to handle excessive waste printing by students and while they worked the interface was clumsy and difficult or just too costly, we discovered PaperCut in 2000 and found it to be the easiest and most effective product to handle this for us. The interface is very intuitive and the ability to remote update accounts for printing credits allows us to basically set and forget.

Our college effectively halved the cost of printing in the first year. Now students are responsible for their printing and Internet usage.

On the occasional times I have contacted support for assistance or for suggestions I have found them to be relatively quick with a response and the suggestions actually actioned where possible.

I cannot recommend this product more highly. Thanks guy's for a great product.

Phillip, Beaconhills College - Victoria Australia
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