PaperCut NG 15.3 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. Configuring Windows print queue client rendering

2.4. Setup wizard

2.5. PaperCut NG Configuration wizard

2.6. User sync configuration wizard page

2.7. The Mac installer

2.8. PaperCut NG Configuration wizard

2.9. User sync configuration wizard page

2.10. Creating the host user account - part 1

2.11. Creating the host user account - part 2

2.12. The Novell OES Linux install process

2.13. PaperCut NG Configuration wizard

2.14. eDirectory/LDAP configuration wizard page

2.15. The Linux install process

2.16. PaperCut NG Configuration wizard

2.17. User sync configuration wizard page

2.18. Ensure the advanced popup is enabled

2.19. 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. Deploying an MSI package as part of a Group Policy

5.10. Configuring a startup application in Group Policy Manager

5.11. Upgrading an MSI package as part of a GPO

5.12. Toast Notification (panel at top right) in Metro Mode

5.13. Connecting to a Windows server

5.14. The PCClient share's connection string

5.15. Add PCClient as a Login Item

5.16. Control-click and open the package contents

5.17. Double-click to install the login hook

5.18. A user's summary information

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

5.20. A list of available shared accounts

5.21. Printing costs as seen by the user

5.22. Using a TopUp/Pre-Paid Card

5.23. Transferring funds to another user

5.24. A user's recent balance transactions

5.25. A user's recent printing

5.26. The user's view of jobs pending release

5.27. Web Print jobs in progress

5.28. Environmental Dashboard

5.29. Windows live tile sample

5.30. Tile sample: 5 stars

5.31. Tile sample: Organization C0₂ use

5.32. Tile sample: Organization tree consumption

5.33. Tile sample: Organization weekly printed sheets

5.34. Tile sample: Tip to use grayscale

5.35. Tile sample: User energy use

5.36. Mobile user web tools - summary page

5.37. View in Desktop mode link

5.38. Mobile user web tools - balance

5.39. Mobile user web tools - environmental impact statistics

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

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

5.42. The Paper-Less Alliance Desktop Widget

5.43. The Environmental Impact Gadget

5.44. 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

6.11. Enabling Username Aliasing

6.12. Username alias field on the User Details page.

6.13. Active Directory sync option for username aliasing

7.1. The Template Printer

7.2. Copy settings from one printer to others

7.3. Printer disabled using a time-latch

7.4. Standard charging example

7.5. Advanced differential charging example

7.6. Print conversion filters

7.7. Some of the available print restriction filters

7.8. Advanced conversion functionality with print scripting

7.9. Converting student printing to grayscale

7.10. Job Log showing an EMF job

7.11. Select "staff" from the list of groups

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

7.13. Adding an existing printer group

7.14. Three cost adjustments defined at the printer level

7.15. Cost adjustments displayed in the Advanced Client Popup

7.16. Cost adjustments displayed in the Manager Mode Popup

7.17. Turning on popup authentication at the user level

7.18. PaperCut NG client requesting for authentication

7.19. The color detection setting for a printer

7.20. Enabling the hardware check

7.21. Hardware check adjustment options

7.22. Printer properties dialog:

7.23. Printer ports dialog:

7.24. Add port dialog:

7.25. Choose printer port:

7.26. Hardware check status

7.27. Hardware check log status

7.28. An example watermark using variables

7.29. Print Job Log showing the PostScript metadata

7.30. Enabling watermarking in the Admin Console

7.31. Searching job log for signature b608c7a39f08643768051217f2f5315a

7.32. Job Log showing an EMF job

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

7.34. Failure mode settings

7.35. Status of print jobs logged after reconnection

7.36. Toner level information on Printer Details screen

7.37. Enabling end-user print job refund requests

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

7.39. Sending refund request

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

7.41. Overview of user's refund request

7.42. Printer refund request user notification options

7.43. Defining custom printer fields

7.44. 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. Multi-Server and Multi-Site Deployments Multi Site/Multi Print Server deployment

10.2. Multi-Server and Multi-Site Deployments Single Server deployment

10.3. Multi-Server and Multi-Site Deployments Multi Site/Multi Print Server deployment

10.4. Multi-Server and Multi-Site Deployments Multi Site/Multi PaperCut Server deployment

11.1. Site Server example

11.2. WITHOUT Site Server

11.3. WITH Site Server

11.4. Account Selection when pop-up is not possible

11.5. Policy for restricted accounts

11.6. Policy for unauthenticated users

11.7. Policy for authentication

11.8. Site Server name

11.9. Application server IP/Hostname

11.10. Built-in admin credentials

11.11. Site Server status

11.12. Site Server list

12.1. Central Reports across multiple application servers

12.2. Central Reports Status Tab

13.1. The Standard Release Station

13.2. Manager-mode web-based release station

13.3. Web-based release station within the admin pages

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

13.5. Mobile Print Release listing held jobs

13.6. Web based Print Release showing Override option

13.7. Selecting a Shared Account when using the Override option

13.8. All documents easily identifiable by document and machine name

13.9. End-user web based release interface options

14.1. Single Virtual Queue (High School)

14.2. Multiple Virtual Queues (Graphics Department)

14.3. Multiple Location Specific Virtual Queues (Large Company)

14.4. Find Me Printing and Web Based Release Interfaces

14.5. Simple Load Balancing

15.1. The Dashboard Page

15.2. User/group sync source options

15.3. Progress of a user/group synchronization process

15.4. Card/ID number Sync Options

15.5. On demand user creation options

15.6. The list of users and groups granted admin access

15.7. The list of users and groups granted admin access

15.8. The list of users and groups granted admin access

15.9. Options for a notification sent before a held job gets deleted

15.10. Options for a single system notification

15.11. Card/Id number Notification Option

15.12. Printer error notification settings

15.13. Low toner notification settings

15.14. Error level event notification settings

15.15. Pending refund request notification settings

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

16.1. Entering a batch ID

16.2. Defining a valid till date

16.3. Options to edit the card design

16.4. Enable Macros in MS Word 2007

16.5. Cards ready for printing

16.6. Imported card numbers

16.7. Inserting a new logo into a card

16.8. Propagate labels button in previous versions of MS Word

16.9. Update labels button in MS Word 2007

16.10. Using a card

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

17.2. PaperCut NG Architecture - an advanced configuration

18.1. Customizing the user client link

18.2. Customized user client link

18.3. A customized end-user web designed for St Mary's Anglican Girls School

18.4. A customized end-user web designed for Williamstown High School

18.5. Login Page with custom instructions

18.6. Adding a new custom navigation link to the user web interface

18.7. Example custom navigation link in the user web interface

18.8. Deleting a custom navigation link

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

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

18.11. Customized content in the administration interface dashboard

18.12. Example custom report header usage

18.13. Customized design of Mobile Print Release for WilTown School

19.1. Single Sign-on Configuration

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

20.2. The print script editor showing a sample script

20.3. Example syntax error in a print script

20.4. Example runtime error in a print script

20.5. Importing a print script recipe

20.6. Importing a print script snippet

20.7. Print Script Client Prompt with HTML formatting

23.1. Supported Environments

23.2. Google Cloud Print and PaperCut

23.3. Publishing Printer

23.4. Google Cloud Print Setup Wizard

23.5. Google Request for Permissions Window

23.6. Printer published to Google Cloud Print

23.7. Sharing a printer on Mac OS

23.8. Accessing the installation URL manually, using Safari

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

23.10. The PaperCut App for iPad on the home screen

23.11. The PaperCut App for iPad (before printing)

23.12. The PaperCut App for iPhone(before printing)

23.13. Printing from iOS

23.14. Printing (PaperCut) app on the home screen

23.15. Authenticating to the PaperCut iPad App

23.16. The PaperCut App for iPad (after printing)

23.17. The PaperCut App for iPhone (after printing)

23.18. Printing from iOS

23.19. Printing (PaperCut) app on the home screen

23.20. Authenticating to the PaperCut App

23.21. The account selection dialog in the PaperCut App

23.22. The PaperCut App for iPad (after printing)

23.23. The PaperCut App for iPhone (after printing)

23.24. Email to Print workflow

23.25. Email to Print configuration

23.26. Web Print architecture overview

23.27. The PaperCut Web Print dialog

23.28. Web Print Server status OK

23.29. Web Print link in the user interface

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

23.31. Customizable Web Print introductory message

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

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

23.34. Web Print wizard step 2: account selection options

23.35. Web Print wizard step 3: upload a document

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

23.37. List of active Web Print jobs

23.38. Web Print settings in the admin interface

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

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

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

23.42. Installing the XPS Viewer for Windows Server 2008

23.43. Select a Class Driver

23.44. The Mobile Print Release printer list

23.45. An empty job list

23.46. Jobs display in a held jobs list

23.47. Showing the details of a job in the held job list

23.48. Selecting the disired jobs in the held job list

24.1. Grid view is a great way to locate jobs visually

24.2. Inspecting a print log in the full screen viewer. The viewer toolbar supports navigation, zoom, image rotation and PDL file download.

24.3. Print Archiving options on the Options tab

24.4. The print job viewer showing the download PDL option in the toolbar

24.5. The print job viewer showing the remove option in the toolbar

25.1. Web Cashier items

25.2. Web Cashier Purchase example

25.3. Web Cashier Purchase Acknowledgement Slip

25.4. Web Cashier Deposit example

25.5. Web Cashier Deposit Acknowledgement Slip

25.6. Web Cashier default configuration

25.7. Web Cashier user

26.1. Stopping the service and setting to Manual startup

26.2. Adding a new Generic Service Resource

26.3. Cluster service parameters configuration

26.4. Adding a new Generic Service Resource

26.5. PaperCut Application Server Properties configuration

26.6. PaperCut dependencies configuration

26.7. Stopping the service and setting to Manual startup

26.8. Creating a new cluster resource

26.9. Cluster service parameters configuration

26.10. Stopping the service and setting to Manual startup

28.1. PaperCut NG client requesting authentication

29.1. Setting up a printer on Mac OS 10.8 / 10.9 Server using Jetdirect

29.2. Sharing printers for a print queue in Mac OS 10.8 / 10.9

29.3. Setting up a workstation printer on Mac OS 10.8 / 10.9

29.4. Publishing printers using Server Admin on Mac 10.8

29.5. Connecting the printers to the Mac OS X server

29.6. Installing the PaperCut Client software

30.1. Turn off simple file sharing

30.2. Turn off simple file sharing

30.3. Enable perform printing as other user

31.1. Internal users options

31.2. Web based internal user registration interface

31.3. Creating an internal user from the administration interface

31.4. Login screen showing the registration link

31.5. Changing an internal user password from the administration interface

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

31.7. Setting up anonymous printing

31.8. Setting a delegate for the guest-user account

32.1. Enabling Multiple Personal Accounts for the first time

32.2. Multiple Account Priorities

32.3. User payment accounts

32.4. Separate Cash and Quota accounts

32.5. Example of an advanced account setup

A.1. Accessing Certificate Information in Internet Explorer v11

A.2. Viewing the Certificate Chain in Windows

A.3. Customized Print Job Notification window

B.1. Disable simple file sharing

C.1. LPD Service set up wizard

C.2. CUPS Administration UI

C.3. CUPS Administration UI Add Printer

E.1. Database growth using the internal database

E.2. Database growth using a Microsoft SQL Server database

I.1. Client Popup Confirmation Window

I.2. Printing balance window showing $10.00 of printing balance

I.3. Printing balance icon in the system tray

I.4. Printing denied message

I.5. Shared Account Selection Popup

I.6. Printing balance icon in the system tray

I.7. Printing denied message

I.8. Login screen

I.9. Print jobs waiting in a release station

I.10. Job Log

I.11. Refunding print job

I.12. Approving a refund request from the Refunds tab in the admin interface.

I.13. Overview of user's refund request

I.14. Balance window showing the Details link

I.15. Redeem Card page

I.16. Printing using PDF Creator or XPS Document Writer

I.17. Web Print link

I.18. Web Print front page showing active jobs

I.19. Instructions for using the system

I.20. Choosing the printer

I.21. Enter the number of copies

I.22. Upload a document