I was looking for a print accounting package for Novell iPrint on OES Linux when I saw PaperCut and decided to download the eval. I install a lot of software all the time and it has been a long time since I installed anything that was so easy to set up, so well documented and so easy to use. Not only does PaperCut support OES Linux, we can also run the application right on our iPrint cluster, eliminating the need for additional hardware. Support was extremely helpful and responsive in answering any additional questions we had. PaperCut has all the features we need and more, it took us all but 10 minutes to decide to purchase it.
It does a great job, is easy to use, has given us no problems, and has saved us countless reams of paper and piles of toner.
PaperCut NG is a tremendous product. I researched other companies and PaperCut stands out as the best. We perform a silent monitoring in the Fall semester 2005 and actually ran PaperCut NG in the following Spring semester 2006. The results show PaperCut NG is effective. In one lab, we went from using 9 toner cartridges in the Fall to 4 toner cartridges in the Spring. Each toner cartridge cost $152, we had a savings in that lab alone of $760 on toner cartridges.
Fall semester the top 10 students who printed the most, had a total of 44,342 prints. The following Spring semester, the top 10 students had a total of 7,320 prints. Printing went down 83.5%. Paper cost for the entire college went down 29%. We set a limit for the students to have 357 prints in for Spring semester. After they used up their $25 credit or 357 prints they would have to purchase a Top-UP card. We also used Top-UP cards and sold them in increments of $1, $5, and $10. We sold 107 cards. Our Spring semester we earned $535 from our Top-UP cards.
PaperCut is a wonderfully useful piece of software! It has drastically cut the amount of paper in the recycle bin. Students are much more responsible about their printing. PaperCut forces them to be more conservative about the use of resources. Considerably more thought now goes into the decision to click the printer icon.
PaperCut lets us have a consistent credit system between different operating systems and empowers us to manage users and printers seamlessly. A++
We have been using PaperCut for just over a year now and the savings we have seen with minimal rules and filters in effect are easily double the price of what we would normally spend on supplies in a year. Aside from the ability to generate reports and hold accountability, the custom scripting allows us to use PaperCut exactly how we need it to function in our organization which has quirks that you typically wouldn't see in the average educational institution.
The web printing makes it super easy for students to print from anywhere on campus and from their own mobile devices, along with the ability to easily charge students for printing costs outside of the classroom and re-cooperate some of the money spent on printing supplies.
Being on the edge, we do a lot of things before it's "stable" or done elsewhere. Papercuts' phenomenal support staff make this possible, without them we would not be doing the things we are doing. To be able to submit an issue, have a response within hours via e-mail and immediately over the phone, and then within a few days have the developers solve the issue and send you a re-compiled executable, is beyond any support I have ever worked with in my 15+ years of IT.
Not only has PaperCut allowed us to save money, it has genuinely made an aspect of the IT departments job exceedingly easy and less troublesome on a daily basis.
PaperCut NG really has made a big difference to our college. Both on ease of use and also to financial savings we have been able to make, on toner and paper wastage. We have experienced cost reductions of approx. 48%. The functionality of the users ability to transfer funds to other accounts, all from a web page means it's simple and straight forward, for both users and admins. A great bit of software with regular relevant updates!
We have been using PaperCut for since 1999 and have cut our toner and paper usage in half. The user enquiry tool encourages the students to be economical and responsible in the printer use. Waste bins near the printer are almost empty. We have found PaperCut very easy to set up and maintain for our 1000+ users. With the account creation rules and auto scheduling, PaperCut effectively manages itself.
I have always been fond of your product since we first introduced it a year ago. I've recommended your product whenever the opportunity arose. 'Getting under the hood' and really figuring out how PaperCut works has impressed me even further. PaperCut is incredibly well thought out and well engineered, as demonstrated by the ease at which it can be clustered on a Novell iPrint environment. Too often I find "Third party" products seem to feel that they were cobbled together without much care or attention. This is not the case with PaperCut.
PaperCut ist für die besonderen Anforderungen unserer Druckdienstleistungen von zentraler Bedeutung. Es läßt sich gut in ein bestehendes Nutzerverwaltungssystem integrieren. Modularer Aufbau sowie gutes Zusammenspiel mit Druck-Serverdiensten und Datenbank erleichtern die Administration. Die Interaktion mit den Nutzern ist sehr intuitiv, so dass das System von vielen Anwendern schnell verstanden wird. In Hochlastzeiten zu Semesteranfang und Semesterende läßt die Performance auch bei einer großen Anzahl parallel eingehender Druckaufträge nicht zu wünschen über. Der deutschsprachige Support antwortet schnell und präzise.
PaperCut is easy to setup, configure and manage through the simple web console, with multi-platform support and a friendly, fast and efficient support channel.
We initially evaluated a range of products. PaperCut did everything we needed at the most competitive price. Three years on there's no looking back. All upgrades have been implemented without any problems. The word "PaperCut" is now part of the College vocabulary and students now have access to printers 24 hours a day, all thanks to PaperCut.
PaperCut is easy to use, both in the administration console, as well as the user's side. The documentation is always clear, and accurate. I hardly ever have any problem with PaperCut, and would recommended it for anyone who is looking for a software solution to manage their printing infrastructure. The automatic email notifications of low toner, and printer errors, the ease of managing users and printers as well as the wide range of reports available makes PaperCut an essential tool in my day to day IT administration.
The PE Technikon is a Technical University and the George Campus is a satellite campus located 330 kilometres away from the Main Campus. We have approximately 1000 students. The situation in 2002 was that students made use of 4 after-hours computer labs and needed to print. The Student Council paid for the ink and the students provided their own paper.
This caused two major problems. The Student Council had a limited budget and because there was no control of the ink usage, some students received maximum benefits while others constantly found the printers to be out of ink. Also, because students provided their own paper, we found that students used all sorts of paper in the printer, believe it or not wrapping paper has been found jammed in the printers. The printers were constantly having to be serviced due to paper jams and other abuse.
I conducted a search on the Internet and came across PaperCut. With some creative accounting and the assistance of PaperCut management, I was able to purchase the Papercut quota system. I tested the system until December 2002 and then implemented PaperCut on our Windows network. The Main Server is located at our Saasveld site with a secondary server installed at our second site 15 kilometres away.
The system has now been running for six months and what a difference! Total costs so far are only 30% of what it was last year for paper and ink. Not one of the student printers has had to be serviced this year. I have seen that the students are becoming more responsible and economical in their printer use.
I would definitely recommend the PaperCut Quota system to any school or University. It is easy to use AND manage. Thanks to Papercut Biz for a great product.
James Madison University offers pay-to-print service to nearly 20,000 students at 35 locations across campus. During 2011, JMU selected the PaperCut MF system to replace an older deprecated product.
We were initially apprehensive about selecting a product with no CS Gold gateway, but after live product trials we decided to contract with PaperCut to produce the new gateway. We also requested several other modifications so the transition from our existing system would appear nearly seamless to our students. The PaperCut developers were attentive, flexible, and met all deadlines.
PaperCut MF and the CS Gold gateway have worked flawlessly since going live . Although PaperCut MF is very capable with a nearly exhaustive menu of canned reports, we have leveraged its cross-platform support, multi-vendor database compatibility, scripting, and open API to easily extend the product's print management and reporting capabilities.
In our experience, PaperCut MF is easy to install, configure, troubleshoot, and maintain. It has thus far proven stable, versatile, and accurate.
PaperCut was installed on the server over lunch, and immediately began logging, we quickly set our preferences for the whole site and by the end of the day we were ready to go live, in the last year our ink and paper bills have been cut in half.
Our College has been using PaperCut since mid September, last year. We've found it to be an excellent replacement for another trouble prone print charging product. PaperCut is clean, efficient and very easy to use and install. PaperCut doesn't suffer from memory-leaks and random crashes like our previous system.
This is an outstanding product which I have recommended to other colleagues in educational computing. Congratulations on your achievement - it's saving us a lot of money in consumables.
PaperCut tech support is phenomenal! The support staff has always been friendly, helpful and quick to respond. We run a complicated operation that covers 27 printers, 5 sites, 5 print servers and over 1000 users. PaperCut staff helped us configure, troubleshoot and fine-tune our installation. Thanks to their help, we have been able to maximize the value of this product to save hundreds of dollars!
The first day it was installed it stopped a 1000 page erroneous print job to a remote network printer. Since then, our costs have plummeted. This is one of the best technology investments we have made!
PaperCut is easy to use! It does a great job!
PaperCut NG is a fantastic product for non-profit organizations. It brings the control we need to reduce print and internet costs with along with ease of setup and administration. As a former manger in a document management company - I am recommending this product to my peers.
This is definitely a marvellous server application, besides being a user friendly one. Since 2006 it has saved us tons of paper and printer toners. Currently we now subscribed to a 5 years contract with our vendor using PaperCut MF. Would gladly recommend this application to any institution.
Since moving over to PaperCut Quota in January 2006, administration and management of the system could not have been easier or simpler. It has greatly reduced administration time as students are able to check up and top up their own print quota. With the upgrade to PaperCut NG this year, ease of management is further enhanced with the administration console now accessible via a web interface. Staff can now manage the system from any workstation connected to the College network. The new reports available in NG will be very useful for printer management and planning/budgeting purposes.
Technical excellence in the software itself is well complemented by your technical support team. The College has been most impressed with the level of service we have experienced in the past 18 months.
This is a great program, simple to use and robust. I have recommended it to a number of other schools, both public and private.
I am very impressed with the attitude of the PaperCut personnel. I especially appreciate the dedicated customer service we receive. With PaperCut, customers are not treated like a number. Open dialog with the engineers is actually encouraged. They are always open to suggestions and give every one careful consideration. I wish all companies treated their customers like PaperCut Software.
PaperCut seamlessly took control of our recently purchased HP Laserjet 2100 printer. It was extremely easy to add users. I have already seen that the students are becoming more responsible fitting more work onto a single sheet by using columns, a smaller font, and changing the margins; they are learning to do better word-processing...
We switched from another software package to PaperCut. The difference has been night and day! The software is incredibly easy to install. Upgrades install quickly and easily with no hassles. For the few times that we've had issues, mainly with quirky or odd printers PaperCut support has been responsive and helpful. They've always been able to come up with a satisfactory resolution. The cost of the software is very reasonable and it has saved our institution (and in turn the tax payers) tens of thousands of dollars! I can easily say it's one of the best programs our institution has ever purchased.
Our experience with PaperCut, and with staff we interfaced with for the installation and ongoing support has been outstanding. The product has performed as well or better than was presented to us during our sales consultations. The level of support and customer service has exceeded our expectations. I have already highly recommended to other organizations both the product and the services of MJ Print Control / ecoprintQ (a PaperCut Authorized Solution Center).
I've used PaperCut at several of my primary schools over the last few years. It has performed extremely well, doing its job as promised.
At Somerville Rise Primary School, Teachers and their grade are allocated a certain amount for the year ($20 for grade, $80 for the teacher). If the grade runs out early, the Teacher can elect to transfer some of their money to their grade so they can keep printing. This works, as it encourages the teacher to teach their class to be careful about printing.
From low-end to high-end servers, on any flavour of Windows, PaperCut just runs - no interruptions, no memory hogging, and no crashing.. PaperCut Quota is well designed, and well written software.
Great support from the developers, e-mails promptly answered, and always able to offer assistance on the rare occasion that I actually need it! Keep up the good work!
We love PaperCut. It is a truly operating system agnostic solution that has allowed us to address almost any level of complexity in terms of tracking and allocating printer usage. PaperCut makes it very easy for us to bill students through the university accounting system so we can use the money to buy new printers on a regular basis allowing students have access to reliable printing.
We have deployments that can manage the intricacies of graphic design output to plotters, computers labs accessible to tens of thousands of students requiring per page billing and small department print quotas with secretaries generating their own ad hoc reports.
The internal reporting system and automation tools provided have saved our sys admins countless hours in generating data for administrators. It is rare to find a product so well thought out and beneficial to users in every role.
We initially tested the beta Mac version of PaperCut. We have been using it since the beginning of official release. It was so good that we abandoned our existing Windows print accounting software. Since we have had trouble free print accounting on both Mac and Windows platforms and saved a hell of a lot of money. The technical support is the best I have ever come across. Always friendly efficient and available outside normal hours even with the timezone difference. Try it and you won't regret it!
I work at a university that contains around 13,000 students. We use Microsoft and Mac as our working platform. PaperCut NG is a great product and the team provides an excellent service. They are very fast when it comes to online support and feedback. PaperCut NG is a great product that gives control over your printers and provides reports so that you can keep track on how many pages have been printed. I advice any company great and small to use PaperCut NG. Thank you once again.
It's a huge time saver. It does all the accounting for me. It provides easy access to printing from your desktop. It also brings in all the faxes and shoots the email directly to you.
Sheridan College serves 400 high-capacity printers to over 20,000 students, staff, and faculty spread across three campuses. These clients run a mix of Windows, Mac, and Linux. PaperCut was the best fit for our scale in terms of features, support, and value.
I've gotta say PaperCut is great and I've been singing its praises to other departments. The reports quickly show me printer usage at a glance, which I use frequently to more accurately place orders for toner and paper. I used to throw thousands of pages into the recycling bin every day because of unclaimed printouts, but overnight it's been whittled down to a couple reams! Aside from the money saved on toner/paper, I stand to save thousands reducing the number of lab attendants since these TopUp cards can be sold by our department receptionist or in one of our vending areas. I no longer need technical staff to supervise printing full time!
Thanks to your marvellous product we have saved over £300 pounds in the last month on people doing unauthorised printing. Your great support during our testing phase ensured an already straightforward deployment was achieved with the greatest of ease.
The only high usage system I've ever seen that doesn't require regular maintenance, it just works brilliantly. It is the most stable system at our college, I only wish that more applications were as good and easy as this.
After using PaperCut NG for a year to monitor our print use, we have now started using it's great features to reduce our print volume. In our second year we have saved over £5,000 on consumable costs, saved £12,000 on new printer hardware by halving the number of printers in our school, and reduced our print use by 62%. Fantastic!
Just a quick comment to congratulate you on the new PaperCut version 5.1. It seems to be a big improvement on the version 4. I was particularly impressed by the clarity of the user documentation. It was very easy to follow and the program installed without a hitch!
PaperCut, there's nothing much to say except that it just works! But what more would you want?
At Raffles College of Design and Commerce New Zealand we are running multi-platform systems and we required printing management system that will monitor, manage quota, usage billing and generate reports. PaperCut stood out in our internal trial comparing to other products in the market. A great product can only be defined as great when it is backed by superb supporting technical team.
In my recent experience with moving an existing PaperCut server to a completely new installed server went smoothly just because I had PaperCut support team member Jason guiding me over the chat session. We had over 400+ user data and I was worried whether we would be able to put our server back to its original state. Due to unprecedented event our server got destroyed but we could retrieve existing PaperCut data from the crashed hard drive. Once I explained our situation to Jason he quickly gave me all the answer to my queries. Within 30 minutes our new PaperCut server was ready and started serving our network users.
I would definitely encourage all our colleges worldwide to use PaperCut not just because it's a great product, but it's backed by superb after sales service. Thanks Jason and PaperCut.
Our college has tried other packages to handle excessive waste printing by students and while they worked the interface was clumsy and difficult or just too costly, we discovered PaperCut in 2000 and found it to be the easiest and most effective product to handle this for us. The interface is very intuitive and the ability to remote update accounts for printing credits allows us to basically set and forget.
Our college effectively halved the cost of printing in the first year. Now students are responsible for their printing and Internet usage.
On the occasional times I have contacted support for assistance or for suggestions I have found them to be relatively quick with a response and the suggestions actually actioned where possible.
I cannot recommend this product more highly. Thanks guy's for a great product.
We are a relativley small sixth form college in London and after evaluating/testing many print management solutions, PaperCut without a doubt came out on top. We have around 2,000 users and papercut saves us a heap of toner and paper wastage. Students have to learn and plan their usage of quota and web interface, reporting, integration with AD are all exactly what we needed. Very simple to setup and maintain, I would recommend PaperCut to any private or public sector organisation. Well done Aussie PaperCut!
As a small private college we needed a print control software that wouldn't be a burden to the technical department (1 person) and a large dollar investment. PaperCut MF has been the perfect solution in both areas. What a blessing! The price is amazing and the setup is incredibly fast and simple. Adding funds to students accounts is a snap and the students enjoy the freedom of being able to print when they want and where they want. It has been running trouble free for almost a year now. Thank you PaperCut! Keep up the good work and may God bless you.
The Burnside War Memorial Hospital is a small 76 bed 'not for profit' hospital based in the eastern suburbs of South Australia. Whilst scoping a major change of printing infrastructure in late 2008 and after consultation with a local company Paytec and various printing vendors, we chose PaperCut MF as the best product to fit our current and future needs. We currently manage 12 multifunction printers, 6 monochrome, 3 colour printers and 5 colour multifunction devices incorporating CopiCode terminals. For the first 12 months we ran in a monitoring capacity and now we are using many of the features available to enforce cost control and an overall mindset change to responsible printing throughout our organisation.
PaperCut has good release cycles with new features, is easy to administer, always works and has been a huge success to our organisation.
PaperCut has been flexible and reliable. It has done everything we've asked of it and has suceeded in cutting our printing costs significantly. I recommend it whenever I get the chance!
The application is really very nice and we are on track to reduce our printing consumption from 1.1 million pages per month to a goal of 800,000 pages per month.
PaperCut is the one and only software for a printing solution for your company/business! If you want to keep track of all your printing jobs its a must have. You can log every print and generate detailed reports about all your printing jobs, project related, with budget quotas, paper format etc...
Actually we installed it on an Apple Mac Server, and installation was as simple as handling my coffemachine for a cappuccino. :-) In addition we received absolutely great email support: fast, friendly and professional.
We purchased PaperCut NG for the purpose of reducing the cost of printing. It works well for us in terms of awareness of printing and environment. The deployment is easy no need expert knowledge. In a primary school environment this product fits very well. We would recommend this product to any one in Education in this current climate of saving money.
PaperCut is a fantastic piece of software. Setup is very easy, and it works really well, with tons of useful features, I love that it integrates with Active Directory. The technical support is top notch, response time was very fast and they worked with me to solve my issue. I would recommend this product and this company to anyone.
Well done on producing the best print charging solution I have used! PaperCut is fast, reliable and easy to manage. The advanced charging options provide excellent flexibility and the web administration interface is the icing on the cake.
We have a network for about 60 students. We replaced 2 printers in our student computer lab last year and spent hundreds of francs on consumables. We tried everything to recoup costs from an honor system deposit box to quarterly fees built into usage cost. None worked. Since installing Papercut, we have been able to recover ALL of our printing costs and build more accountability that has dramatically reduced wasted paper usage. And the printers don't get abused all the time!
I continue to be shocked at the usability and simplicity of Papercut. It has the ability to control so much, yet the program is so simple. The daily administration is almost non-existent. By using the Top-Up card feature, we sell prepaid cards in our snack bar and the students credit their accounts via the web interface themselves. It is truly an "auto-pilot" program.
Kudos for a product well designed! I highly recommend anyone to this program.
Excellent software. Installed without an issue and just worked straight away flawlessly. So much customization available to admins and so many features too. Superb service and response to support requests and generally nice people to buy software from!
PaperCut has managed to save our school hundreds (if not thousands) of pounds in printing costs. Every year we can now review how much is being spent and have absolute control over our printing budgets.
We installed PaperCut to keep track of the amount of printing going on across the school. Easy to set up and use, PaperCut has reduced the amount of waste printing significantly. Always reliable, always there.
This product and the service provided has been excellent. We started using it within the department a few years ago (early 2008) for graduate student printing and photocoping (using PaperCut MF). This year 2010 the University student printing provider has adopted and implemented it for their University wide student printing. I like to see well designed software interfaces and this is reflected in the PaperCut offering.
Prior to implementing PaperCut many of our patrons were thoughtless or abusive when consuming printing resources, and our previous practice of manually managing print cards was inaccurate and burdensome. PaperCut practically manages itself, and because we needed a true cross-platform solution PaperCut was the perfect fit for our libraries.
PaperCut NG has been a very cost effective solution to controlling runaway printing costs in our academic computing environment. Setup and access to reports has been easy and flexible. The initial investment has already been recouped in our first year of use. We have enjoyed a 50% savings in paper use and toner costs. In addition, students have enjoyed being able to track how 'green' they are and are more cognisant of their printing. This is a great product!
We have used several products over the last 9 years to manage our student printing, but always had to compromise on the features to get the best product for our budget. PaperCut NG is easily the most cost effective with its low price and enterprise standard features that you would find on products costing thousands. We recoup the cost of printing, and can use features such as price reductions on the cost of duplex printing to encourage more environmentally friendly usage.
PaperCut NG adds a completely new and intuitive web interface to the product which allows for support staff to check and manage the printers from any computer on the network. With the setup wizard, you can have a fully deployed print quota system in less than 5 minutes!
The reports allow students to view their print history easily and support staff can use it to view the busiest printers (along with many other reports). We can now sell top-up cards in the shop and bar so that students can add print credit themselves.
Finally, when we have had problems and questions, the support has been nothing short of excellent. Nothing was too big or small and the developers work with you to find the solution to your complete satisfaction. In short, an excellent product from an excellent company - my only complaint is that we didn't find it sooner...
I was looking for a while for the product that will cut the printing cost and at the same time will fit in a sub $1000 range. Here it is! PaperCut does the great job, easy installation and minimum of configurations makes it even more attractive. Would definitely recommended.
We love PaperCut! It's one of the cheapest in market but met all our requirements. Their ever-ready support team has the necessary technical know-how and was really supportive (pun intended). We now have better visibility on what's going in/out from our printers. On top of all that, PaperCut is easy to install and very user-friendly. Don't give a second thought. Just go for it.
We have been very happy with the software - works beautifully and has some great features for tracking printing of students. Our computer tech and I are both very pleased with its performance.
We have been using PaperCut since 2003 and never doubted its ability once. The development of PaperCut is great. All issues addressed and all new features are good ones, that the administrators and users need, not just gimmicks! Web printing - nice. Green issues - just what I need to show students how much paper they use. It is superb value for money and I wouldn't swap it for any other system right now. Best bit of software for print management I have seen at a great price.
PaperCut has proved invaluable to the school. It is very easy to use and has cut down our use of paper dramatically. Its many options and friendly interface makes it a joy to work with. I would recommend it any school.