• Introduction
    • About This Guide
      • Using this manual
      • Expectations & prerequisites
      • Terminology used in this document
    • What is PaperCut NG?
    • How does PaperCut NG work?
    • The Top-Ten Hidden Features!
    • Example user information sheets
      • Example 1: Printing with the popup confirmation window
      • Example 2: Printing with shared accounts (for staff)
      • Example 3: Printing using a Release Station
      • Example 4: Refunding a print job (for staff)
      • Example 5: Adding credit using a TopUp/Pre-Paid Card
      • Example 6: Printing from a wireless network or laptop (Web Print)
    • Licensing and support
      • Installing a license
      • Technical support & further information
      • End User License Agreement (EULA)
  • Installation
    • Implementation by example
      • Scenario: The small school
      • Scenario: The large school
      • Scenario: The university
      • Scenario: The small business
      • Scenario: The medium to large business
      • Scenario: The public library or Internet cafe/kiosk
    • Capacity planning
      • Database sizing and growth
      • Print archives sizing and growth
      • Network bandwidth planning
      • Managing large client billing databases
    • Installation on Windows
      • Quick install: Windows
      • Running in a Workgroup environment
        • Option 1: Common username and passwords on all systems
        • Option 2: Authenticating via popup
    • Installation on Mac
      • Quick install: Apple Mac
      • Mac printing in detail
      • Mac hosted print queues for OS 10.8+
      • Windows hosted print queues
    • Installation on Linux (CUPS and Samba)
      • Quick install: Linux (CUPS and/or Samba)
      • PaperCut NG on Linux
      • The installation process
      • Advanced configuration & logs
      • Backups & system management
      • User directory and authentication
      • Unix command-line Release Station client
      • Removing PaperCut NG from a Linux server
      • Linux FAQ
    • Installation on Novell OES Linux (iPrint)
      • Quick install: Novell OES Linux (iPrint)
    • Testing the installation
    • Advanced implementation
      • Multi-Server and Multi-Site Deployments
      • Resiliency with Site Servers
        • Technical overview
        • Offline operations
        • Installing a Site Server
        • Common questions about Site Servers
      • Configuring secondary print servers and locally attached printers
        • Configuring a Windows secondary print server
        • Configuring a Macintosh secondary print server
        • Configuring a Linux or Novell iPrint secondary print server
        • Print monitoring architecture
        • Multiple print servers
        • Automating secondary server deployment on Windows
      • Configuring Direct Printing
        • Install the Direct Print Monitor
          • Installing the Direct Print Monitor on Windows computers
          • Installing the Direct Print Monitor on a Macintosh computer
          • Installing the Direct Print Monitor on a Linux computer
        • Linking direct print queues to a printer
          • View linked print queues
          • Link a print queue to a printer
          • Unlink a print queue from a printer
        • Configure a directly connected printer
        • Configure Find-Me Printing for directly connected printers
      • Clustering and high availability
        • Microsoft Failover Cluster Manager (MSFCM) on Windows 2008 R2 or later
        • Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) on Windows
        • Virtual Machine clustering
        • Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) on Windows
        • Novell Cluster Services (NCS) on Novell OES Linux
        • Client/workstation configuration
      • Deployment on an external database (RDBMS)
        • Upsizing to an external RDBMS
        • Configuring a database
      • Web browser Single Sign-on (SSO)
        • Planning for web SSO Implementation
        • Configuring web SSO
      • Advanced LDAP Configuration
        • LDAP Server Default Configuration
      • Print authentication
        • About authentication and printing
        • Handling unauthenticated (non-domain) laptops
        • The authentication cookbook - recipes by example
      • PaperCut LPD service
        • Using the PaperCut LPD service
      • User Client
        • Install the User Client on Windows
        • Install the User Client on Mac OS X
        • Install the User Client on Linux and Unix
  • Tour
    • Navigation
    • Sections
    • Basic user operations
    • Basic printer operations
    • Client software
    • Interface levels
    • Assigning administrator level access
    • Charting, statistics, reports and logs
  • Configuration
    • Services for Users
      • User Client
      • User web interface
      • Environmental Dashboard / Windows Live Tiles
        • Windows Live Tile installation
        • Using Environmental Dashboard on other browsers/platforms
      • Mobile User web interface
      • Gadgets/widgets and more...
    • Advanced user management
      • Groups in PaperCut NG
      • Setting new user creation rules
      • Setting up quota allocations
      • Setting overdraft limits
      • Enabling username aliasing
      • Maintaining office/department history
      • Disabling printing for a user
      • User card and ID numbers
      • Bulk user operations
      • Batch user data import and update
      • User management FAQs
    • Printing solutions for guests and snonymous users
      • Internal users (users managed by PaperCut NG)
      • Anonymous guest printing
    • Multiple personal accounts
      • Why use multiple personal accounts?
      • Configuring multiple shared accounts
      • Configuration examples
    • Shared accounts
      • Creating a shared account
      • Account naming guidelines
      • Client security
      • The account selection popup
      • Account selection in non-domain environments (Workgroups)
      • Batch shared account import and update
      • Shared account synchronization
      • Bulk shared account operations
      • Shared account quota allocation
      • Shared account cost multiplier
      • Advanced shared account options
    • Advanced printer management
      • Adding and removing/deleting/ignoring printers
      • The template printer
      • Copying printer settings
      • Renaming a printer
      • Disabling printers with time latches
      • Managing printing using differential charging
      • Using Print filters: conversions and restrictions
      • Managing printer groups
      • Defining cost adjustments
      • Popup authentication
      • Setting the color detection method
      • Validating page counts using hardware checks
      • Watermarking/job annotation
      • Behavior on server connection failures
      • Toner Levels (for supported printers)
      • Refunding print jobs
      • Defining custom printer fields
      • Extracting usernames in enterprise print environments (e.g. SAP, Unix)
      • Printer FAQs
    • Find-Me printing and printer load balancing
      • Find-Me printing
      • Global Print Driver
      • Requirements for job redirection (load balancing or Find-Me printing)
      • Advanced configuration
      • Printer load balancing
      • Find-Me printing and printer load balancing FAQ
    • Hold/release queues & Print Release Stations
      • Release Station interfaces
      • Hold/release usage scenarios
      • Install a Release Station on Windows
      • Configure a Release Station
      • Configure mobile print release
    • Mobile & BYOD printing
      • Google Cloud Print
      • iOS printing (iPad & iPhone)
      • Email to Print
      • Web Print (driver-less printing via a web browser)
        • Setting up Web Print
          • Set up Web Print: Default mode
          • Set up Web Print: Sandbox mode
          • Enable Web Print on a printer
          • Configuring Web Print (optional)
        • Submit a Web Print job
        • Scaling your Web Print environment
          • Add or remove a Web Print server
        • Monitor a Web Print server
        • Troubleshooting Web Print problems
        • Installing the XPS Viewer
      • Windows 8 tablets & Windows RT printing
      • Mobile Print Release—releasing print jobs on your mobile
      • Mobile Client
      • Self association for emails and email verification/validation
    • TopUp/Pre-Paid Cards
      • The card system
      • Cards by example
      • Creating new cards
      • Using a card
    • Reports
      • Report types
      • Report formats
      • Generating filtered reports
      • Scheduling and emailing reports
      • Advanced reporting options
    • Central Reports
      • Prerequisites for Central Reports
      • Setting up Central Reports
      • Running Central Reports
    • Advanced scripting (print scripting)
      • Print script API reference
    • Advanced customization
      • Customizing the Admin web interface
      • Customizing the User web interface
      • Customizing the User Client
      • Customizing Mobile Print Release
      • Customizing report headers
      • Limiting the list of interface languages/translations
      • Data access and custom reports
      • Automation and scripting
      • Custom user directory information providers
      • Enabling ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS)
    • Web Cashier
      • Setting up Web Cashier
      • Assigning Web Cashier admin permissions
      • Processing purchases
      • Depositing funds in a Web Cashier account
      • Viewing Web Cashier order history
      • Customizing the Web Cashier interface text
      • Generating a Web Cashier report
    • Print Archiving (viewing and content capture)
      • Technical overview: How does archiving work?
      • Setting up Print Archiving
      • Advanced archiving options and features
      • Troubleshooting and known limitations
  • Administration
    • System management
      • The dashboard
      • Synchronizing user and group details
      • Assigning administrator level access
      • Setting up system notifications and emails
      • Managing system backups
      • Setting system security options
      • Changing the environmental impact reference values
      • Setting privacy options
      • Using the Config Editor
      • Logging
    • Server management
      • Changing the server address
      • Changing the network interface that PaperCut listens on
      • Overriding the "Host" header for redirects
    • Tools - database, server-command scripting, and APIs (Advanced)
      • Server commands (server-command)
      • Database tool (db-tools)
      • The XML Web Services API
      • Generating an SSL/HTTPS key
      • Configuring the User Client using the command-line
      • Stopping and starting the Application Server
      • Automating installation on Windows
      • Importing print job details
      • Monitoring print system health
        • PaperCut system health monitoring overview
        • Examples: Monitoring system health
          • Example 1: Overall print system health monitoring
          • Example 2: Printer health monitoring
          • Example 3: Advanced system health monitoring
        • Configure PaperCut NG system health monitoring
        • Discover the System Health interface authorization key
        • Discover the printer and device status URLs
        • System Health interface reference
          • Status summary URLs
          • Status per printer and per device URLs
          • Status per Web Print application
          • Advanced system statistics URLs
          • Advanced system information URLs
    • PDL transform language
    • Upgrading
      • Upgrading from a previous version
        • Upgrade process
      • Upgrading from PaperCut Quota
        • Upgrade process
    • Troubleshooting & technical FAQ's
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