Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- What is PaperCut NG?
- How does PaperCut NG work?
- The Top-Ten Hidden Features!
- One: Remote Administration
- Two: Secondary Servers and Local Printers
- Three: Customizable Web Interface
- Four: XML Web Services and Command-line Control
- Five: Release Station Support
- Six: Text Print Logs
- Seven: 3rd Party Database Support
- Eight: Zero-install Client Deployment
- Nine: Shared Accounts
- Ten: The Development Team
- Quick Start Guide (for Windows)
- Step 1 - Checking system requirements
- Step 2 - Downloading and installing PaperCut NG
- Step 3 - Running the configuration wizard
- Step 4 - Printing a test document and verifying charging has occurred
- Step 5 - Accessing and printing from another workstation
- Step 6 - Configure print queue permissions (Optional)
- What next?
- Quick Start Guide (for Linux)
- Step 1 - Checking system requirements
- Step 2 - Creating the host user account
- Step 3 - Downloading and installing
- Step 4 - Running the configuration wizard
- Step 5 - Configuring Printers
- Step 6 - Print a test document and verify charging has occurred
- Step 7 - Sharing client software
- Step 8 - Accessing and printing from another workstation
- What next?
- Quick Start Guide (for Mac Servers)
- Step 1 - Checking system requirements
- Step 2 - Creating the host user account (optional)
- Step 3 - Downloading and installing
- Step 4 - Running the configuration wizard
- Step 5 - Configuring Printers
- Step 6 - Print a test document and verify charging has occurred
- Step 7 - Sharing client software
- Step 8 - Accessing and printing from another workstation
- What next?
- 2. Implementation by Example
- 3. Quick Tour
- 4. Advanced User Management
- 5. Advanced Printer Management
- 6. User Client
- 7. Shared Accounts
- 8. Reports
- 9. Print Release Stations
- 10. System Management
- 11. TopUp/Pre-Paid Cards
- 12. Configuring Secondary Print Servers and Locally Attached Printers
- 13. Advanced Customization
- 14. Licensing and Support
- 15. Deployment on an External RDBMS
- Overview
- Upsizing to an External RDBMS
- Step 1 - Stop the PaperCut NG application
- Step 2 - Perform a backup of the existing data
- Step 3 - Create a new database in the external RDBMS
- Step 4 - Change the PaperCut NG connection details
- Step 5 - Initialize the new database
- Step 6 - Load the data into the new database
- Step 7 - Restart the PaperCut NG application server
- Configuring Microsoft SQL Express 2005
- 16. Microsoft Cluster Environments
- 17. PaperCut NG on Linux
- 18. Print Authentication & Cross-Platform Networks
- About Authentication and Printing
- The Authentication Cookbook - Recipes by example
- Windows systems with generic logins
- Windows laptops that do not authenticate against a domain
- Windows print server using LDAP or eDirectory authentication
- Mac OS X systems with generic user accounts
- Mac OS X systems using domain authentication via Open Directory
- Mac OS X systems using domain authentication via Windows Active Directory
- Mac OS X laptops (or single user systems) printing to Windows print queues
- Linux Workstations in a lab environment with printers hosted on a Windows server
- Linux Workstations in a lab environment with printers hosted on Linux CUPS server
- Linux laptops (or single user systems)
- Multiuser Unix terminal servers
- Further Recommendations
- 19. Mac Printing in Detail
- 20. Running in a Workgroup Environment
- A. Tools (Advanced)
- B. Troubleshooting & Technical FAQ's
- C. Advanced LDAP Configuration
- D. Capacity Planning
- E. Upgrading From a Previous Version
- F. Upgrading from PaperCut Quota
- G. Software License Agreement
Users
Groups
Accounts
Printers
Reports
Cards
Options
Application Log
AboutList 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
- 1.5. Network printer configuration
- 1.6. Setup wizard
- 1.7. PaperCut NG Configuration wizard
- 1.8. User sync configuration wizard page
- 1.9. User client
- 1.10. Configuring Windows print queue permissions
- 1.11. The Linux install process
- 1.12. PaperCut NG Configuration wizard
- 1.13. User sync configuration wizard page
- 1.14. User client
- 1.15. The Mac installer
- 1.16. PaperCut NG Configuration wizard
- 1.17. User sync configuration wizard page
- 1.18. User client
- 3.1. Application navigation tabs
- 3.2. The Actions area. Click to perform the action.
- 3.3. Buttons to validate and save settings
- 3.4. The crumb trail highlighting the location
- 3.5. A red status message indicating a validation error
- 3.6. A field highlighted indicating a validation error
- 3.7. Application navigation tabs
- 3.8. Adjusting a user's credit up $10.00
- 3.9. A 40% discount applied to double-sided printing
- 3.10. Printer Filters and Restrictions
- 3.11. A printer disabled for 1 hour
- 3.12. The user client tool
- 3.13. The list of users granted admin access
- 3.14. User 30-day account balance history
- 3.15. Printer utilization chart
- 3.16. Print page history for a single printer
- 3.17. Printer report in PDF
- 3.18. Printer usage log
- 3.19. User account transaction log
- 4.1. Adding/removing groups
- 4.2. The Group Details screen
- 4.3. Initial settings applied to new users
- 4.4. User printing disabled using a time-latch
- 5.1. The Template Printer
- 5.2. Copy settings from one printer to others
- 5.3. Printer disabled using a time-latch
- 5.4. Advanced differential charging example
- 5.5. Some of the available printer filters and restrictions
- 5.6. Turning on popup authentication at the user level
- 5.7. PaperCut NG client requesting for authentication
- 6.1. The User Client on Windows
- 6.2. User Client account selection popup
- 6.3. PaperCut Client on Mac OS X
- 6.4. PaperCut NG requires Mac OS X v 10.3 or later
- 6.5. Connecting to a Windows server
- 6.6. The PCClient share's connection string
- 6.7. Add PCClient as a Login Item
- 6.8. Control-click and open the package contents
- 6.9. Double-click to install the login hook
- 7.1. Selecting a shared account with the User Client popup
- 7.2. Creating a shared account
- 7.3. Selecting a shared account from the popup
- 7.4. The user's popup settings under User -> User Details
- 7.5. Setting up shared account security
- 7.6. Client popup options defined on a per-user basis
- 7.7. The print job confirmation dialog (no account selection options)
- 7.8. Configuration allowing only selection of other user accounts
- 7.9. Popup requesting the user to enter their username and password
- 8.1. Selecting ad-hoc date ranges for reports
- 8.2. Printer log PDF report
- 8.3. Report icons of alternate report formats (i.e. PDF, HTML, Excel).
- 8.4. Filters applied to the shared account print log
- 9.1. The Standard Release Station
- 9.2. Web-based release station (Manager mode)
- 9.3. Web-based release station within the admin pages
- 9.4. End-user web-based release station
- 9.5. All documents easily identifiable by document and machine name
- 10.1. User/group synchronization options
- 10.2. Progress of a user/group synchronization process
- 10.3. Options for a single system notification
- 11.1. Entering a batch ID
- 11.2. Defining a valid till date
- 11.3. Options to edit the card design
- 11.4. Cards ready for printing
- 11.5. Imported card numbers
- 11.6. Inserting a new logo into a card
- 11.7. Propagate labels button
- 11.8. Using a card
- 12.1. Secondary server reporting back to primary server (application server)
- 12.2. PaperCut NG Architecture - an advanced configuration
- 13.1. Customized user client link
- 13.2. A customized end-user web designed for Flora Hill Secondary College
- 13.3. A customized end-user web designed for Ross University
- 16.1. Stopping the service and setting to Manual startup
- 16.2. Creating a new cluster resource
- 16.3. Cluster service parameters configuration
- 18.1. PaperCut NG client requesting authentication
- 19.1. PaperCut Client on Mac OS X
- 19.2. Add a printer
- 19.3. Option-click for advanced printer addition types
- 19.4. Windows printer via SAMBA
- 19.5. Connecting to a Windows server
- 19.6. The PCClient share's connection string
- 19.7. Add PCClient as a Login Item
- 19.8. Mac popup authentication dialog requesting username and password
- 19.9. Add a printer
- 19.10. Option-click for advanced printer addition types
- 19.11. Windows printer via SAMBA
- 19.12. Connecting to a Windows server
- 19.13. The PCClient share's connection string
- 19.14. Command-click and open the package
- 19.15. Double-click to install the login hook
- 19.16. Turning on popup authentication at the user level
- 19.17. PaperCut NG client requesting for authentication (Sorry: Windows screen-shot!)
- 19.18. Windows Component: Other Network File and Print Service
- 19.19. Add a printer
- 19.20. Adding an LPR/LPD printer
- 19.21. Connecting to a Windows server
- 19.22. The PCClient share's connection string
- 19.23. Double-click to install the login hook
- 20.1. Turn off simple file sharing
- 20.2. Turn off simple file sharing
- 20.3. Enable perform printing as other user
- D.1. Database growth using the internal database
- D.2. Database growth using a Microsoft SQL Server database
List of Tables
- 1.1. Standard print commands
- 4.1. Quota schedule times
- 4.2. User Import File Format
- 5.1. User Client Popup Config Keys
- 7.1. Shared Account Import File Format
- 8.1. Report Formats
- 9.1. Standard Release Station config settings
- 9.2. Standard Release Station modes
- 10.1. Fields available in all notifications
- 10.2. Fields available in print notifications
- 11.1. Card Terminology
- 12.1. PaperCut NG services/components
- 13.1. User Client Customization Config Keys
- 13.2. Files used to customize the user web pages
- 13.3. Text print log file format
- 17.1. Secured Application Areas
- 17.2. Advanced Configuration
- A.1. XML Web Services Methods
- A.2. User Client command-line options
- C.1. LDAP Config entries
- C.2. Unix / NIS LDAP default settings
- C.3. Novell eDirectory LDAP default settings
- C.4. Active Directory LDAP default settings