PaperCut

Posted: 28.05.09  |  Created by: Do Something

PaperCut Software is the company behind "PaperCut NG" and "PaperCut ChargeBack" printer and internet resource management applications. These solutions enable companies to monitor, quote and report network printing use. PaperCut Software delivered its first print quota application for schools and universities in 1999, and entered the enterprise market with PaperCut ChargeBack in 2001. PaperCut Software's application now manages printing and internet use in thousands of organisations in more than 60 countries.

Today PaperCut Software remains a small software development company driven and managed by the founding developers. All employees have a passion for technology and enjoy delivering software technology direct to the customers without a barrier formed by resellers, a sales channel or marketing team. PaperCut Software believes that close contact with customers is the best way to turn their ideas into applications.

PaperCut NG™ is a print and internet quota, charging, tracking and monitoring system designed to promote the responsible use of IT resources. It's a premium cross-platform solution specifically designed to meet the needs of schools, universities and other organisations. Implementations range from silent monitoring, quota control to user-pays systems.

PaperCut ChargeBack™ is designed for businesses and organisations who need to track print job costs by account (client / project, department, job / issue / matter, phase). It works by allowing users to allocate their print jobs to accounts via popup client software. This makes PaperCut ChargeBack ideal for organizations such as legal, accounting, consulting, design, architecture and engineering firms. PaperCut ChargeBack enables users to:

• recover costs from your clients, turning printing expenses into revenue
• produce reports, track expenses against budgets, monitor trends
• place quotas on users, preventing abuse of printing services
• PaperCut ChargeBack leads the way with innovative features, cross-platform support, source code access and enterprise level scalability
• PaperCut NG leads the way with innovative features, cross-platform support, source code access and enterprise level scalability.

PaperCut Software also offers a number of popular free software options and a generous program to encourage the adoption of PaperCut in developing countries. PaperCut Print Logger™ is a free program designed to log print activity on either servers or desktop systems. It's ideal for organizations that wish to silently track or audit printing activity. Logs are available in a friendly HTML format or in an Excel format to facilitate further data analysis.

Free Paper-Less Print Logger software is available here.

For more information on PaperCut please go to http://www.papercut.com/.