Print Manager Plus is a Print Management Control solution from Software Shelf International. It  was written from the ground up as a native 32-bit application and service. It allows quota and tracking of all printing activity on a Windows NT/2000/2003 Network. It will track pages being printed from Windows 2003/2000/NT 4.0, 3.51, Windows XP, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 3.1, DOS, Macintosh, UNIX (all flavors), and OS/2 clients.

Print Manager Plus installs in seconds on any Windows NT/2000/2003 print server and is so cost-effective it often pays for itself within 10 days...

Print Manager Plus:

·        Tracks, controls and reports printing usage and costs across networks.                   

·        Budget or restrict users by $ amount, # of pages per job, job size and file type.

·        Restrict printers by # of pages per job, job size and file type.                                 

·        Complete cost and usage accounting.                                                                    

·        Complete reporting.                                                                                             

·         Client Billing Module available.                                                                             

Key Features:

Tracking     

·        Review the number of pages and copies printed by printer, user or group.

·        Track print jobs by black and white vs. color.

·        Track print jobs by page size and duplex.

·        Track printing to specific printers (such as more costly color printers).

·        Track Large Format Printers by linear inch or centimeter, supports HPGL/2, Epson, and all Postscript printers..

·        Keephistory records for print traffic by user, by printer, by group (for determining heavy usage periods), by date and by document title.

·        Show operating costs by printer and by user.

 Control     

·        Set user quotas by dollar (supports any currency) value.

·        Deny service when this quota is exceeded by a user.

·        Set different "per page values" for each printer based on black and white vs. color, page size and duplex..

·        Deny service on jobs which are printed from specific applications or which have designated key words in the document title..

·        Notifies user (through pop-up messages) when their print job has been denied.

·        Warns user (before quota reached) when quota is getting low.

·        Delete, pause or leave a job when a restriction has been activated or quota exceeded.

·        Optionally pause all jobs that enter a specific printer queue from a specific user(s).

·        Handles orphaned users and groups.

·        Can optionally use default user settings for new users added to the domain .

·        Can optionally use default printer settings for new printers added to the domain.

·        Each individual printer can have its own restrictions which can override user quotas or restrictions.

Print Manager Plus Reporting

Print Manager Plus is proud to use Crystal Reports viewing. We have over 25 detailed reports and graphs that can show all printing activity over your network. The reports are very robust and show details such as Username, Document Name, Printer/Plotter Name, Time Printed, Pages Printed, Color, B/W, Duplex, Cost, and Inches/Centimeter, etc…

The data Print Manager Plus generates can also be exported to many different file types like, Excel, Html, Xml, Rpt, etc…

Whatever data is needed can be easily generated, exported or stored. And, because Print Manager Plus is live, the data is always current and up to the minute.

Below are the reports that can be generated by Print Manager Plus. We also have other special reports that can be supplied from our support area. If you are currently under Print Manager Plus maintenance, we will make any report you need.

If you own Crystal Reports Professional or Developer you can easily open our reports and generate or modify them to your specifications.

List of Included Print Manager Plus Reports

Print Manager Plus Standard Detailed History by Workstation Detailed History by Printer Detailed History by Plotter Detailed History by UserDetailed History for all Workstations Detailed History for all Printers Detailed History for all Plotters Detailed History for all Users Detailed History of Denied Jobs for all Users Graph - Daily Printing Graph - Monthly Printing Graph - Color Prints Graph - Duplex Prints Graph - Most Active Printers Graph - Most Active Users Graph - Weekly Printing Graph - Page Size Summary for all Denied Jobs Summary for all Workstations Summary for all Plotters Summary for all Printers Summary for all Users by Printer Summary for all Users   Client Billing Edition Additional Reports Detailed History by Client Account Detailed History for all Client Accounts Summary for all Client Accounts

Print Manager Plus Export Options PDF Character-separated values Comma-separated values Crystal Reports Excel 5,7,7E,8,8E) HTML 3.2 HTML 4.0 (DHTML) Lotus 1-2-3 (WK1,2,3) System DSN ODBC connection Record style Report definition Rich Text (Exact) Format Tab-separated text Tab-separated values Text XML

    Customized reports are available for customers under maintenance agreement.

Print Accounting Functions 

 Print Manager Plus takes print management to a new level with robust accounting functions.             

·        Add a balance to a user. This balance is the users account or "Quota" As the user prints, the value for that printer is deducted from his or her balance.

·        User Group Defaults allow you to add a balance to many users in a group at one time.

·        Adjust the user's account balance without resetting the # of pages printed.

·        Add more value (credit) to the balance of the account.

·        Reset the pages printed to 0 without resetting the account balance.

·        Automatically reset or increase balances by a specified amount for all users, a specific user or groups of users.

·        Data and time scheduling can be used to reset users' quotas or to automatically add credits to quotas.

·        Administrator can allow negative account balance.

·        Handles any currency.

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