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Track Printing

PaperCut NG and PaperCut ChargeBack are all designed to track printing in a network environment. When people refer to "tracking" they usually mean in a silent non-obtrusive way. PaperCut NG is ideal for this requirement. The software will keep detailed activity logs of all user printing activity including information such as:

  1. The user who printed
  2. The time of the print event
  3. The number of pages
  4. Document attributes such as color, duplex, grayscale, paper size, document area
  5. Where the print job orinated from (the workstation name or IP address)
  6. The document name and type (for example a Word document's file name)
  7. The print job's cost if a per-page or other cost model is associated with the printer

This information can be further analized by network administrators to determine printer load and abnormal network/printer activity.

For more information on PaperCut's ability to track printing or implement a print quota solution, please see the main PaperCut NG web page and associated product tour.

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