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PaperCut is a versatile software that has been widely appreciated for its ability to control user printing in environments with multiple …
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What is PaperCut?
PaperCut Software headquartered in Melbourne offers their suite of print and output management solutions including PaperCut NG as well as embedded software to supply hardware integration.
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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PaperCut is a versatile software that has been widely appreciated for its ability to control user printing in environments with multiple users. Organizations find it invaluable as it allows them to restrict printer usage to authorized individuals, thus preventing unauthorized printing and ensuring data protection. Many users have praised PaperCut for its ability to manage printing and copying needs among all end users, making it an essential tool for universities and organizations with large numbers of employees. It has also proven effective in reducing printing costs and preventing wasteful printing of large documents.
Installing PaperCut has helped organizations reduce the time and money spent on troubleshooting printing issues, leading to increased productivity. The software's reporting and scripting features have been particularly useful in cutting printing costs by providing easily accessible data on print jobs and total costs. Users appreciate the software's ability to track printing habits, view print jobs in line, and monitor the number of pages printed, helping them stay conscious of their environmental impact.
Furthermore, PaperCut has revolutionized printing in K-12 school environments by keeping track of all print jobs, allowing for easy monitoring and accountability. The software has enabled organizations to centralize printing, streamline printing processes, and minimize paper wastage. While some users have found PaperCut challenging to use compared to their previous software, many agree that its benefits outweigh any initial frustrations. Overall, PaperCut has proven to be an essential tool in reducing printing costs, promoting responsible printing practices, and meeting goals of waste reduction in organizations of various sizes.
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April 26, 2022
Best printing solution out there
We use PaperCut at our Higher ED institution for mobility print, web print, email-to-print, and the follow-me virtual queues. It replaced Pharos for us and was a great idea to. PaperCut has very few issues and usually the issues we do have resolve themselves.
- Follow-me virtual queues
- Web print for students.
- Mobility print for personal computers on campus.
- Better support (for us because we go through a printing company).
- More streamlined user interface.
- Groups for users
- Detailed info from the printers
- Cost effective
- Better managing of costs to print.
PaperCut was more user friendly for our higher ed situation and had a great sales pitch from the reseller we got it from.
March 04, 2022
Super Informative and Supportive!
PaperCut is used in my organisation for printing services. When sending a print job, we can view what is in line to be printed. We are also able to view the amount of pages we have printed and total 'trees' we have used. It ensures we stay conscious of the environment.
- Schedule print jobs.
- Environmentally friendly.
- History recall.
- Not accounting for jobs that did not release.
- Ensuring that jobs sent through are processed.
- Greater description of tree size etc for reference.
- Environmentally friendly.
- Ensures visibility.
- View history of print work.
- Positive as we save paper.
- Positive as we are aware of our job prints.
- Negative as jobs that are not processed are still accounted for.
PaperCut is easily a better program or product to use in a workplace environment that often faces too much paper wastage as we are able to keep track of how many print jobs have been dedicated to levels of paper usage and keep track of the jobs that have already been processed for paperwork.
March 03, 2020
PaperCut: Doesn't Hurt As Bad As You Think
Originally we began to use PaperCut for centralized and confidential printing. Upon implementation we were looking to move towards a more centralized printing model. With large buildings and many staff members, we needed something reliable and easy for users to make the migration as seamless as possible. Our other requirement was confidential/secure printing for our employees that need copies of documents containing personal/confidential information. Both of these use cases were (and continue to be) super easy and reliable. After we used PaperCut for a while we began to look at reporting and scripting to cut printing costs across the board. We implemented the PaperCut desktop application and pushed it out to every user. Each user is now able to see the total cost of what they have printed and the job details thereof. We then targeted certain printers throughout the organization for specific scripts. For example: an overused color printer now displayed a message describing how printing in B&W saves money overall. The user may continue printing in color or they may choose to print in B&W. All of these implementations have been fantastic.
- Centralized printing via virtual hold / release queues.
- Confidential and secure printing via card authentication.
- Scan to folder/email integration with Active Directory.
- Printer specific scripting actions give you a ton of options. The canned scripts are super helpful as they are prebuilt and need very little modification.
- Overall printing reports are very informative.
- Mobility Print gives you a great solution for printing from Chromebook devices.
- Integration with Google Cloud Print never really worked for us.
- Sometimes the job log reports are hard to follow.
- The PaperCut application sometimes requires a machine reboot when connection to the print server is lost.
- The biggest ROI impact would be that we are saving money every year by printing less and less.
- As part of moving towards this centralized model, we no longer purchase new printers.
- The only negative was the initial push back from users that have been printing to local printers for years and years. This is something that will obviously go away over time.
I have not evaluated any other print management utilities that were not simply built in to the Server OS.
December 23, 2019
Effective printing using PaperCut
PaperCut is a print management software that is being used by the entire organization. With close to 3000 employees working across 35 or more sites, PaperCut has been helpful in minimizing the wastage of paper. It helps us view how company resources are being used. Misuse is detectable with this software.
- Run reports to view print usage by department, employee, site, etc.
- Helpful in capturing trends.
- Less employee friendly, as they feel like they are being watched.
- Needs approvals while printing certain documents, hence it leads to employee frustration when they are not able to print right away.
- The software has helped us identify places where company property is being misused.
- Helped minimize wastage of paper, hence it is environment friendly.
We did review products like uniFLOW, PrintManager, UniPrint before implementing PaperCut. We had heard good reviews from our friends and other sources. Some employees had also used it before and were familiar with the implementation process. It was easy to sync the software with several printers across various sites. We did not require any other processes or tools to implement.
PaperCut is absolutely fantastic in tracking what is printed from an economic standpoint, but also from an environmental standpoint. I know the who, when, where, and what that was printed for my organization. This isn't a "Big Brother" move, but a way to hold people accountable for how often they print, and whether it's really necessary.
- Web printing: I can be anywhere and print a document to the printer in the office.
- Price Per Sheet Transaction: I can load my printer up with $50 at the start of the month, and track how much I'm spending in printing.
- Computer integration: I have a Mac and my coworker uses a PC. This works flawlessly on both.
- The initial set up is a bit of a burden, and isn't truly user-friendly.
- The web print feature can get hung-up some times and there isn't a way to cancel when a job is "processing."
- The MacBook top bar item isn't always stable.
- Positive: Cut back on printing as a whole.
- Positive: Tracking our monthly spend on tracking.
- Positive: I work in a shared workspace, and I'm not footing the bill for other companies.
Print Audit is a similar set-up that boasts about server-based architecture and how they are using a reputable and current business model (you can google the articles to see the propaganda), but ultimately it falls short when compared to PaperCut. PaperCut is just easier to use once everything has been installed. You don't even think about it anymore and it becomes part of your entire computer, which is exactly what I want when printing. This is something that is a no-brainer and doesn't get in my way. Print Audit got in my way and wasn't worth the hassle.