PaperCut MF provides integration with Lexmark MFDs, enabling the tracking, charging or billing of "off the glass" copying. PaperCut's embedded MFD solution uses Lexmark devices' built-in touch screen to provide a rich set of application features in both walk-up copier usage and the printer control area.

authentication

PaperCut is a single integrated solution where copier usage is managed together with network printing all in one system. Users have a single account and administrators have the same level of administration for all services.

Leverage your existing single sign-on infrastructure by allowing users to log in with the same username and password used elsewhere on the network. No need to remember and maintain multiple logins!

• Integrate with:
  • Microsoft Active Directory
  • Apple Open Directory
  • Novell eDirectory
  • Other LDAP, NIS or POSIX environments
• Optionally authenticate using swipe cards, proximity cards or ID numbers and optional PINs for extra security.
• Display instructions and your organization's own custom logo on the login screen.
  

  Sample customized screen - logo and welcome message can be customized

real-time tracking

PaperCut MF monitors copying page-by-page and reports copier usage live in the central PaperCut usage log together with details like color/black & white, page sizes, duplex etc.

Use copy details to define costs and track users' copier usage across your whole fleet. [Screenshot log]

Users' copier usage, just like printing, can be controlled by

• User allocated quotas or budgets,
• shared account budgets,
• or a user-pays upfront model.

The device will deny copying in excess of quota or account balance.

Ranges of related pages can be grouped into 'copy jobs'. Unique to the Lexmark solution, all tracking is done in real-time and jobs can be denied even before they start. This means that users don't run out of credit half-way through a job.

shared accounts

The Lexmark embedded solution offers the same level of tracking copying as PaperCut does for printing. Each job may be allocated to a shared account that may represent a department, project or client.

• Shared account access is optional meaning that some users can have a simple interface while others get access to the complete list.
• Access to shared accounts is easily administrated and can leverage Active Directory/LDAP groups.
• Real-time account and user level reporting.

If enabled, shared accounts can be accessed using a number of on-screen convenient methods:

• Selection from list
• Quick entry via code/PIN
• Search by keyword
  

  Charging to a shared account while printing from a workstation

  Charging to a shared account while copying

For more information about shared account see the Account Based Tracking in detail tour section.

consolidated reporting and management

PaperCut offers more than 50 standard reports. Reports detail copying, printing or consolidated view. Highlights include:

• By device (printers & copiers)
• By user
• By shared account (client, department, faculty)
• By location
• By date and time / period
• By environmental impact
  
  
  For more information about reporting see the Reporting in detail tour section.
  

print release and find-me printing

PaperCut offers hold/release queue as a core feature supporting all device types. The Lexmark embedded solution provides print release directly from the touch screen. Release methods include:

• Automatic release on log in
• Release from list
• Secure release

This feature ensures the user is there to collect their job and other users can't "accidentally" collect the document.

Find Me printing, also known as "Follow Me" or "Pull Printing", provides users in environments with several identical multi-function devices to print to a single virtual global queue. They can then walk up and log on to a device nearby available device and have their print job pulled from the global queue and printed on the spot. More on Find Me printing in our PaperCut NG tour.

supported devices

Integration is supported for many Lexmark MFD models, including:

• X466dwe, X466dte, X466de, X464de, X463de (firmware P0xx and later)
• X651de, X652de, X654de, X656de, X658de (firmware P1xx and later)
• X738de, X736de, X734de (firmware P0xx and later)
• X860de, X862de/dte, X864de (firmware P3xx and later)
• T656dne, T654dn (print release only)
• X646e, X644e (firmware P2xx and later)
• X642e (requires 256MB, firmware P2xx and later)
• X782e, X940e and X945e (firmware P3xx and later)
• X854e, X852e and X8505e (firmware P2xx and later)
• T64x+4600/X646ef (firmware P2xx and later)