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Featured Articles

• PaperCut User Manual
• Known issues with recent releases of PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF
• Reporting Problems
• Supported Printers
• Upgrading your PaperCut software
• Common iOS Printing Questions
• Do I need a dedicated print server?
• PaperCut and Active Directory
• PaperCut on 64-bit (x64) platforms
• Customizing the User Web Interface
• What is the Advanced Client?
• Resetting the Admin Password
• Automating printer management in a school, university or education environment

Topics

• Administration
  • PaperCut’s Upgrade Policy
  • Migrating PaperCut to a New Server
  • Migrating PaperCut to a New Server - when using external database
  • Partially clearing out the log data
  • Sending Log Data to Another Location
  • Keeping a healthy system
  • End-User Transfer Feature
  • Renaming user accounts
  • How to Rename a Printer
  • How to Uninstall PaperCut
  • Synchronizing Users and Groups with Azure AD

• Architecture / Implementation / Deployment
  • ImplementationPlan
  • Implementing PaperCut in a school environment
  • PaperCut on multiple servers
  • Does PaperCut work on a Virtual Machine (VM) or Virtual Server?
  • Installing PaperCut in a heterogeneous environment
  • Windows Print Queue Configuration
  • PaperCut on Mac OS (Apple Mac)
  • Mac Open Directory/LDAP Configuration
  • Using a domain administrator service account (Windows)
  • Special considerations on Terminal Server / Citrix / VDI
  • Network Load Balancing
  • Trialling PaperCut Using a Subset of all Users
  • Supporting Windows workstations via a Mac Server
  • Where can I get the secondary server (or local printer) software?
  • Tuning TCP/IP for your PaperCut server
  • Wide Area Networks (WAN) Considerations
  • Working with the 10 connection limit in Windows XP
  • Automated Application Deployment
  • Common Security Questions
  • Automated Application Removal
  • Common Scalability Questions
  • Increasing the Memory Available to PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF
  • Accessibility and PaperCut
  • [Legacy] Building A Mac Client Install Package
  • Firewall Configuration - Ports Used by PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF
  • Choosing the right edition/version
  • What Size Server Do I Need to Run PaperCut?
  • Improve slow network printing with data compression

• Backups & Databases
  • External Database Support Policy
  • SQL Server log files (LDF files) are growing large. How can I shrink them?
  • Backing up PaperCut data
  • Restoring from backup
  • Corrupt Database Problems
  • SQL Server connection problems
  • Database Schema Diagrams
  • Database Tuning (Advanced Topic)
  • Example SQL Queries (when running on an external database)

• Configuration
  • Removing the currency symbols
  • Changing the Server Name or IP Address
  • Integrating with 3rd Party Billing Systems
  • Queue Redirection - An example in Linux

• Domains / Directories
  • Managing laptops/notebooks in a network/domain environment
  • Ignoring disabled Active Directory users
  • Syncing against multiple Groups or Organizational Units
• General Information
  • Case Studies covering education and business deployments
  • SmallBusinessQuickStartGuidePaperCutNG
  • What is a Shared Account?
  • Using the Card Wizard
  • UsingCardWizardWithOffice2016+?
  • What is the difference between user and shared accounts ?
• Translation, International Projects and Localization
  • Translating PaperCut into languages other than English
• Internet Control & Proxy Servers
  • Troubleshooting proxy server configuration
  • Separate balances for printing and internet
  • Internet Charging Transaction Logs
  • Configuring Squid on Linux to authenticate with Active Directory
  • Installing and configuring SquidNT
  • Integrating PaperCut internet charging with other web filtering applications
  • Using multiple internet proxy servers
  • Print Jobs not displayed on in the iPhone/iPad App

• Licensing
  • Exceeding the license limit (user count exceeded)
  • I’ve lost my license. How do I get a copy?
  • Installing / Applying the supplied license file
  • Exceeding the license limit (user count exceeded)
  • PaperCut trial period extensions
  • Applying For A License Exception
  • Obtaining Past Releases
  • Licensing PaperCut NG in a Cluster
  • Licensing across multiple sites/servers/workstations
  • Downgrading PaperCut (to an older version)
  • Support End-of-life Policy

• Printers
  • Printers supporting page-level color detection and All About Page-Level Color Detection
  • Copying Printer Config from one Apple Mac To Another
  • Working with network printers (a printer with a network card)
  • [Legacy] Dealing with locally attached printers
  • Tracking Photocopiers
  • Ignoring / deleting printers
  • Controlling printer access based on time
  • Setting up RIP devices
  • Mainframe/OnePrint Printing Issues
  • Testing a printer’s compatibility without the physical printer
  • Block release of print jobs to printers in error with hardware check enabled
• Release Stations
  • Five Things You Did Not Know Release Stations Could Do
  • Using a release station for color printing only
  • Changing the job timeout in hold/release queues

• Reporting
  • Customizing the report headers
  • CustomReports
  • Email reports to departments head/manager
  • Report FAQs
  • Report Data FAQs

• Sales
  • What is PaperCut Software’s refund policy?
  • PaperCut free license
  • PaperCut’s Privacy Policy

• Scripting and APIs
  • Automatically adding/connecting printers to workstations
  • API Compatibility
  • External System and Integration APIs
  • Calling server-command from a remote system
  • Scheduling server commands
  • Clearing Stopped Mac Print Queues (automatically, using scripts)
  • Scripts to fetch information from PaperCut
  • Placing a daily limit on the number of pages printed
  • Integrating PaperCut with coworking space management software
  • Top Tips for using the Public Web Services API
  • Displaying a One Off Popup using Advanced Scripting
• Top-Up Cards
  • Top-Up Cards

• Upgrading
  • Download past/old PaperCut NG versions
• Using PaperCut
  • Managing End-User Payments
  • Why currency / unit based print accounting is better than counting pages
  • Explanation of point-of-charging, canceled jobs, and automatic refunds
  • What is Silent Monitoring Mode and how do I enable it?
  • Explanation of printing only after last page has spooled
  • Filters
    • Group based restriction on printing
  • Tips & Tricks
    • Showing or forgetting the most recently used Shared Accounts
    • Watermarking and Burst / Separator Pages - Showing print job information on prints
    • Billing teaching staff monthly
    • Charging different users different amounts
    • Batch Printing and the Popup and Hold/Release print queues
    • Providing free period or free exam printing
    • Advanced LDAP Tweaks for User and Group Synchronization
    • How to set up a Free Copy button

• Users
  • Importing a subset of domain users
  • Importing users from multiple domains
  • Deleting Users from PaperCut NG or PaperCut MF
  • Adding a large number of users on a Windows domain
  • How do I refund a failed print job?
  • Importing/Exporting Card Numbers / Identity Numbers
  • Separating Cash Payments and Free Quota

• User Client Tool
  • How do I install the PaperCut client software?
  • Working with popup messages
  • Reducing the bandwidth consumed by the User Client Tool
  • Using the PaperCut Mac Client Login Hook With Other Login Scripts
  • Starting the Client on Mac OS with Launchd
  • PaperCut Client Deployment using Mac Packaging & Deployment Tools
  • Upgrading the Client Software
  • Why Is My User Client Running Slowly?
  • Hiding the Balance Window of the User Client Tool
  • “The publisher could not be verified” prompt running executable from network
• User Web Interface
  • Running PaperCut NG on port 80 (or another port)
  • Forcing use of HTTPS/SSL only
  • PaperCut NG User Web Interface Logins
  • Embedding PaperCut Web Pages in your site

Troubleshooting

• Recent/Important
  • Web Single Sign-on Problems and Diagnosis
  • I am running Windows Server 2008 (pre R2) and jobs are logging under the wrong user
  • Known Issues with PaperCut on Novell OES Linux iPrint
  • Known Printing Issues on Mac OS X
  • Fixing encoding problems/unintelligible characters appearing in PaperCut LPD job queue
• General Information
  • PaperCut Web Interface Wont Load
  • Providing a Print-to-file as requested by support
• Debugging
  • Important Log Files to Check
  • How to Enable Debug Logging
  • Providing Error dump files to support
  • Debug output from the Active Directory provider
• Errors
  • Browser Cannot Connect to Administrator Web Interface
  • SMTP Connection Problems when delivering Email Notifications
  • Users cannot login to PaperCut web interface
  • CUPS raises an error on Linux (queue stops) after enabling PaperCut on the queue
• Domains / Directories
  • LDAP: cannot find groups (users are imported successfully)
• Printers
  • Unable to Add a Printer
  • Common Mac Printing Issues
  • Adding a new printer on a Mac
  • Diagnosing printer toner and other SNMP problems
  • Toner Level Thresholds
• Printing
  • Page count, color, and other attribute detection problems
  • Fixing Print Spooler Crashes - improving print spooler stability
  • Excel Printing Issues
  • Virtual Queue Issues
  • Common Issues/Questions with Web Print
  • Incorrect copy count with mopier mode
• Reporting
  • Running very large reports
  • Report FAQs
• Users
  • Enabling user client notifications on Windows when balloon tips are disabled
  • Diagnosing user client popup and notification issues
• Clusters
  • No print queues found after setting up PaperCut on a Microsoft cluster
• Questions about the Payment Gateway
• Does PaperCut support sales tax?
• Adopt a Feature Program
• Moving from one Edition of PaperCut to Another

Other

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