Print Manager Plus 2008

Print Manager Plus Academic 2008

Print Manager Plus allows you to audit, control, monitor and track printer usage and print users. This print management software was designed to give you control over all your printing resources, from printers to paper, toner and especially users.

Dissuade Students from printing all their emails, pictures, messages and web pages

Irresponsible printing puts a strain on your school’s budget and Print Manager Plus can eliminate wasted printing by up to 50% or more on a single network. Print Manager Plus 2008 Standard Academic Edition for Windows Server allows full setting of printing quotas, restrictions, and detailed tracking of all printing history

If you’re printing environment is a network using Active Directory, or just a simple WorkGroup setup Print Manager Plus is the product for you. The efficacy and speed of the product is transparent to the user. The product can track any Operating System and uses Windows Server or Workstation to run from. Once the product is installed it changes nothing in Windows and its Ease of Use has made it the #1 Print Management software on the market today.

Benefits to Higher Education & Non Profit

Non Profit Organisations, Higher education Colleges and Universities have many department budgetary needs. One of these is printing, which includes monies dispersed for Toner, Paper, Printers, and Maintenance. Now with Print Manager Plus 2008 Standard Academic Edition you can Control and Manage that budget with precision. You can use Print Manager Plus to Monitor, Restrict, or Quota students printing across a department, public lab or even your entire campus.

Product Features

Track and Audit Printing. Print Jobs being routed through a printserver will all be audited no matterwhat operating system the print job is originating from. Once the print job has spooled through the print driver Print Manager Plus will audit data from Network Sources such as Workgroups,Active Directory, and LDAP.

Network data collected is: UserName, User Group, Organization Unit, Workstation Name, Server Name, Printer Name, Printer Group, and NetworkBandwidth.

Print Job data collected is: Time/Date Printed, Document Title, Document Type, Page Count, Copy Count, Page Size, Print Job Size, Black & WhiteOutput, Color Output, Duplex, N-Up, Large Format Printing by Inches and Centimeters.

Printers Audited includes: Dot Matrix, Inkjets, LaserJets, Multifunctional devices , Large Format Printers, and Plotters.

Control Printing

Print Manager Plus can set Quotas and Restrictions. Quotas and Restrictions can be set on a single or multiple users,user groups, and organizational units. Restrictions can be set directly on a printer or group of printers. Default settings can be turned on for new Users, and Printers added to the Active Directory.

If a print job has been denied becauseof a restriction or a quota has been met,Print Manager Plus can automatically be set to Pause the print job or Delete the print job. Pop-Up messages can then be automatically sent to the user’s workstation explaining why the print job was denied. Low balance pop up messages can also be sent when a usergets close to his quota.

Hard Quotas

• Set printing account balance by all printers.
• Set multiple printing balances per a group of printers
• Supports all currencies.
• Set page balance.
• Balances can be deducted by set page costs and deductions with factors such as; B/W, Color, Page Size, Duplex, and N-Up printing.
• Set Quotas to reset by day, week, month, or year.
• Set Quotas to accumulate by day, week, month, or year.
• Supports Negative balances.

Restrictions

• Set multiple restrictions on a User, User Group, Organization Unit, and Printer.
• Deny printing for print jobs over X number of pages.
• Deny printing if document size is over X amount of Bytes, Kilobytes, or Megabytes.
• Only Deny or Only Allow printing based on strings or words in the document title.
• Deny printing if the print job is color.
• Deny printing if the print job is Black and White.
• Deny printing if the number of copies of a print job exceeds X amount.
• Deny printing if the document is reprinted within so many seconds. This handles accidental duplicate printing.
• Deny printing based on time of day. This allows you to set a Black Out time when all printing is denied.

Security

• Deny or Allow printing by users who are not recognized by Active Directory.
• Enforce Print Job Verifi cation at Workstation.
• Enforce Print Job Verifi cation at Release Station (optional).
• Supports Sarbanes-Oxley compliancy. Supports HIPAA compliancy.
• Supports Data Protection Acts compliancy.

Messaging

Print Manager Plus uses two different ways to send messages back to end users when a quota, restriction, or security rule has been met. First the product will try to use the Windows Messenger service. If this is unavailable then messaging can be used in conjunction with the Print Manager Plus End User Inquiry Tool.

• Automatically Delete a Print Job when a Quota,Restriction, or Security rule has been met.
• Automatically Pause a Print Job when a Quota,Restriction, or Security rule has been met.
• Quota low balance warning message Quota has been met message.
• Individual Restrictions have been met message.
• User not recognized by Active Directory message.

Reports & Graphs

Print Manager Plus uses a built in Crystal Reports viewer. The Standard Edition of Print Manager Plus has over 111 built in pre-made reports and graphs.

• Over 111 pre-made reports and graphs.
• Date and Time Value Range
• Reports by String Search.
• Add Report Title.
• Detailed and Summary Reports with drill down capabilities.
• Print Reports or Graphs.
• Zoom In or Out of Reports and Graphs.
• Over 17 export options including: PDF, Html,Rpt, Word, Excel, RTF, CSV, TXT. File destinations include: Disk File, Application,Lotus Domino, Exchange, MAPI.
• And much much more.....