PaperCut MF system requirements

Scalability

• Suitable for networks from 5 to 500,000+ users.
• Browser based admin interface - simple for small sites yet powerful for large sites.

Architecture

• Suitable for single server environments to multi-server, multi-site and clustered environments.
• Capable of monitoring locally attached or workgroup printers.
• Powerful yet optional user client software (not required for print monitoring).
• International: Available in 20+ languages and currency formats world wide.

Licensing

• True enterprise-wide licensing: unlimited printers, servers and workstations.
• Licences are based on the number of devices running the PaperCut MF embedded software by copier brand.

Open Systems

• Open and documented API, scripting interface, and database schema.
• XML Web Services API with helpful source code examples.
• Report data in CSV/Excel, PDF and HTML.

Printers

• Almost all major laser, inkjet, label and wide-format printers/MFDs/plotters.
• Supported print languages: PCL, PCL6, HPGL, PostScript, PCL-GUI, XPS, Ricoh RPCS, Epson ESC, QPDL, various GDI printers and many languages that don't even have names!

User Directory Services

• Active Directory (native integration including nested groups and OUs)
• Apple OpenDirectory
• Azure Active Directory
• eDirectory
• Google Cloud Directory

  This functionality is available for organizations using:

  • G Suite Education
  • G Suite Enterprise for Education
  • G Suite Enterprise
  • Cloud Identity Premium
• LDAP
• OpenLDAP
• NIS, PAM, Samba, and others

Security & Encryption

• SSL encryption used for sensitive client-server communications.
• Option to install a signed SSL certificate.

Database Servers

(optional)

• Self managing internal database: suitable for up to 5,000 users*
• Microsoft SQL Server 2014 / 2016 / 2017 / 2019 / 2022 (64-bit)
• Microsoft SQL Express 2014 / 2016 / 2017 / 2019 / 2022 (free from Microsoft)
• Microsoft Azure SQL (Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance)
• PostgreSQL 12.0 or later
• MySQL 8.0 or later
• Oracle 19.1.0 / 12.2.0.3 or later

Clustering Environments

(optional)

• Microsoft Failover Cluster Manager
• Microsoft Cluster Server
• VMware High Availability Cluster
• Linux HA
• Novell Cluster Services

Operating System

• Microsoft Windows (64-bit)
• Apple macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later
• Windows Server 2022 / 2019 / 2016 / 2012 R2 / 2012 / Windows 11 / Windows 10
  
• Microsoft Clustering Services supported at all application layers
• Most modern Linux (64-bit) distributions including Red Hat 6.0+, Ubuntu 14.0.4 LTS+, Novell SUSE 12.0+, Debian 10.0+, and others (requires GNU glibc 2.11 or higher)

Memory

• 2GB minimum supported (4GB or higher recommended)

Hard Disk

• 3GB, plus additional storage for logs and print history. When using Print Archiving (off by default), a minimum of 100GB of free disk space is recommended.

Port Requirements

• Use this guide to determine how you should configure your firewall.

Operating System

• Microsoft Windows (64-bit)
• Windows Server 2022 / 2019 / 2016 / 2012 R2 / 2012 / Windows 11¹ / Windows 10¹
• Apple macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later
• Most modern Linux (64-bit) distributions including:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (6.0+)
  • CentOS (6.0+)
  • SuSE Linux (12.0+)
  • Ubuntu (14.0.4 LTS+)
  • Debian (10.0+)
  • Others supporting GNU glibc 2.11 or higher

Memory

• 2GB minimum supported (4GB or higher recommended)

Hard Disk

• At least 3GB of free space recommended.

Port Requirements

• See Mobility Print System Requirements for more detail on Firewall rules and ports.

Client Requirements

• iOS 15+
• macOS 11+ (Big Sur)
• Windows 10+
• Android 10.0+
• Chrome OS with Chrome version 69+

Printer Requirements

• Mobility Print works with the vast majority of printers. The key requirement is that the printer has a print driver for the server host operating system (e.g. a Windows driver).

Operating System

• Windows Server 2022 / 2019 / 2016 / 2012 R2 / 2012 / Windows 11 / Windows 10
• Apple macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later
• Most modern Linux distributions (requires Java 8.0 or later)
• Other systems supporting Java 8.0 or later

Memory

• 1GB or greater

Hard Disk

• 0MB - zero-install deployment (recommended)
• 70MB - full local installation

Operating System

• Windows Server 2022 / 2019 / 2016 / 2012 / 2012 R2 / Windows 11 / Windows 10

3rd Party Software Requirements

• Adobe Reader DC or later (optional, internal PDF renderer is used in the absence of Adobe Reader)
• Microsoft Office 2021, 2019, 2016 and Office 365 (to support Office formats)

Memory

• 2GB minimum supported (4GB or higher recommended)

Hard Disk

• At least 3GB of free space.

Operating System

• Microsoft Windows 11 / Windows 10
• Apple macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later
• Most modern Linux distributions (requires Java 8.0 or later)
• Other systems supporting Java 8.0 or later

Memory

• Most modern client workstations are configured with 2GB to 4GB of memory, PaperCut requires a minimal 256MB.

Hard Disk

• 0MB - zero-install deployment (recommended)
• 100MB - full local installation

Most modern client workstations have 60GB to 250GB of storage available.

Web Browsers

• Google Chrome (109 and later)
• Apple Safari (14 and later)
• Microsoft Edge (109 and later)
• Mozilla Firefox (82 and later)

Operating System

• See Application / Site Server requirements for PaperCut MF

Memory

• See Application / Site Server requirements for PaperCut MF

Hard Disk

• See Application / Site Server requirements for PaperCut MF
• Consider additional disk space requirements for submitted files (e.g. 3D print files)

PaperCut version

• Requires PaperCut MF 18.0.0 or later installed on the application server

Operating System

• Microsoft Windows (64-bit) Server 2022 / 2019 / 2016 / 2012

Resources

• Depends on usage mode. See the Set up self-hosted Document Processing page.

Port Requirements

• Port 9181 (HTTPS) inbound TCP to the Locally hosted (on-premise) OCR Server

PaperCut version

• Requires PaperCut MF 19.0 or later installed on the application server