Knowledge Base

Welcome to the PaperCut Knowledge Base! Here you’ll find a collection of questions, answers, troubleshooting tips or how-to information about PaperCut.

There’s also a bunch of handy setup information and tips in our help centers. Think of the help centers like the ‘manual’ for PaperCut. So if you can’t find what you’re looking for in the KB, it’s worth checking the help centers too, for example, the PaperCut NG/MF manuals, the Mobility Print manual, or the PaperCut Pocket and Hive manual.

TIP: to search all information sources at once, use the site Search box in the top right-hand corner (seriously, we recommend this - we use this all the time in the support team and it’s super handy!)

Anyway, if you’re wanting to browse the KB content, there’s a few ways to get started:

• FAQs - any articles which satisfy your hunger for lists of questions and answers.
• How-to articles - walking you through how to configure something.
• Reference - handy to bookmark pages that you can reference in the future.
• Troubleshooting - got an error message? This is the place to look for solutions.
• Known Issues - any known issues for different areas of the product.
• Sales and Licensing - any articles related to Licensing or Sales.
• PaperCut Pocket and Hive articles - articles specifically for the Pocket and Hive products.
• End-user articles - aimed at end users, students, or employees using PaperCut at their organization.

Popular Categories

Authentication	Charging	Databases	Find Me Printing
Installing, Uninstalling, Migrating	Mobility Print	Print Jobs	Print Queues
Reporting	Security and Privacy	Upgrading or Downgrading	User Management

Featured articles

• Impact on PaperCut Software due to Print Nightmare vulnerabilities including CVE-2021-1675, CVE-2021-34527 and CVE-2021-34481
• How to Migrate from Google Cloud Print to Mobility Print
• KnownIssues
• Supported Printers
• Upgrading PaperCut MF & NG (update procedure)
• Resetting the Admin Password
• Firewall Ports used by NG & MF
• MigratingNGToNewServer
• Best practices for configuring Windows Print Servers
• PaperCut Server Sizing Guide
• Do I need a dedicated print server?
• PaperCut and Active Directory
• What is the Advanced Client?

Student and end-user articles

• I’m a Student - How do I log in?
• I’m a student - How do I get a refund for my failed print job?
• How do I redeem my top-up card or add credit?
• How to Uninstall the PaperCut User Client
• Revoking PaperCut’s access to my Cloud Storage

Recently created articles

For a curated list of month-by-month updates, check out the What’s new in the KB page.

PaperCut MF/NG, Mobility Print, Job Ticketing, Print Deploy

PaperCut Pocket and PaperCut Hive

We’re adding information all the time, and we’d love to hear your suggestions - so if your question is not addressed here, please contact us.