PaperCut

Avantages

Excellent reports
Huge amount of customisation
Support for multiple departments for users
Useful integration with multi-function devices

Inconvénients

Despite having a detailed audit for print jobs, there is no way built in to re-send those jobs if they fail (we wrote our own).

Avantages

PaperCut gives us total control over the management of our print fleet. With our increased focus on sustainability the monitoring tools and environmental impact data have been especially useful. Toner level data and error reporting help our support team keep on top of daily maintenance. End users have no problems navigating the printer interface and make use of all the features.

Inconvénients

Having used PaperCut for many years there is nothing negative that immediately comes to mind. Continued updates have improved the usability and features on offer.

Avantages

The product stops working constantly. Since we have had this product the only thing consistent about it, is that it won't work and that we will lose money on lost counts of print/copy charges. The response for repair is slow and often is a temporary fix. I will never be able to recover the money lost on this product. I would absolutely advise a small business owner to avoid this product. There are no pros, only cons.

Inconvénients

If the product worked as advertised that would be an improvement. When the product doesn't work, it also impedes one's ability to use the printers.

Avantages

Intuitive photocopying management on shared copiers. The instruction order is logical and it allows simple upload of credit, management of print queues and adjustments before jobs are finally released. Very easy to integrate with cloud storage of documents in One Drive. Balances on account update immediately.

Inconvénients

No obvious cons! The graphics could be updated to be more contemporary is the only thing I can find to comment on here.

Avantages

From the get-go, PaperCut impresses with its simplicity in installation and operation. It’s a breeze to integrate into existing systems, and its compatibility with various devices and operating systems means it’s ready to work in diverse IT environments.

Inconvénients

PaperCut for me, it is just fine and has no cons.

Avantages

I think the ease, diversity and flexibility of using the product. It is intuitive to use and alongside their support documentation is a simple product to setup, edit and administrate.

Inconvénients

The product seems to be best in a single domain environment as by default users are authenticated via username prefix and in a multi-user domain this can cause issues.

Avantages

Papercut provided me with automated reports about my print usage. They show you a lot of analytics and the user interface is well designed.

Inconvénients

It seemed to slow down the time it took to print documents slighly.

Avantages

This is the most feature-rich print management and cost recovery solution available. It is easy-to-use, quick to deploy, and simple to maintain. Really helps keep printing costs down and modify employee printing/copying behavior. They offer a free 40-day trial as well!

Inconvénients

Absolutely nothing. PaperCut has an incredible Knowledge Base that helps us find the answers to nearly all of our questions.

Avantages

This software pulls from Active Directory and is web-based to manage. It makes simple tasks very simple and is extremely user-friendly.

Inconvénients

The customer support is a bit slow and recently ran into a licensing issue that locked down our software entirely. It also has a bad habit of, for no reason at all, creating users without copy tracking enabled which defeats the purpose in our environment.

Avantages

Print server audit reports are the best and been able to integrate with RFID cards makes easier to reduce the wastage of papers. When the users go to the printer they can see the actual costs to print what ever they sent to print.

Inconvénients

Configuration is a bit handful. Need some knowledge in installing and configuring it with the customization needed as per the organization needs.

Avantages

O Papercut é um excelente software para gestão de impressões no ambiente corporativo. Com ele é possível gerenciar e controlar as impressões, o que pode resultar em economia para a empresa e também menos papel no meio ambiente. É possível ainda criar cotas e administrar diversos perfis de usuários, de acordo com suas necessidades. Possui também a geração de relatórios e análise, sendo possível estabelecer políticas dentro da organização.

Inconvénients

A maior dificuldade se dá na implementação inicial, demandando suporte técnico especializado. Apesar de muito prático na utilização, a instalação e configuração é um tanto específica, impedindo que usuários iniciantes tenha êxito.

Avantages

Simple to use from a users perspective with assigning jobs to different departments (if your in more than one) and easy management of setting budgets for users in the admin section

Inconvénients

So of the UI isn't straight forward and not how you would expect to access certain functions immediately, but if you poke around you can normal work it out.

Avantages

This software provides our users with the ability to send their print jobs to a default printer and retrieve that job from any printer on the network. That convenience alone is probably the best feature of this application for our users. The software is easy to set up and maintain. It can be configured to draw basic user information from Active Directory and you can manually enter individual accounts for persons who may not have an AD account. The application tracks printed pages for each user which can be beneficial for internal accounting purposes. Users can release print jobs by logging into the printer using the printer's touchscreen panel, or with their employee ID badge. PaperCut provides the badge readers.

Inconvénients

We have experienced issues with with the ability of our users to print documents when different printers have had different versions of PaperCut firmware installed. It seems that the PaperCut software needs to have all printers using the same firmware version which must be appropriate for the specific version of the PaperCut software.

Avantages

La facilidad de uso.Gracias a Papercut hemos reducido bastante el consumo de toner y de folios

Inconvénients

Los usuarios cuando se les acaba el saldo se molestan mucho.

Avantages

One of the best features of PaperCut is their support channels, they are very helpful.
There isn't a lot you can't control or capture with PaperCut by default and then there is the scripting engine where you can do everything.
The newest feature is Cloud Print A+++, just need a better way to deploy it

Inconvénients

Scanning, it's really easy to set up but you are limited to a single location per scan action.
Also annoys me when each time I do a scan it goes back to the home page.

Avantages

Our school district starting using papercut a few years ago. I suppose, because it was convenient for those who worked in different settings and to track copier usage. It is convenient to be able to use any copier in the building to print something from my computer. This is really the only advantage I've experienced as opposed to being able to print to a designated copier before.

Inconvénients

There are A LOT of things I do not like about papercut and most of them I've sent on to my IT people to share. However, I've not seen anything change in 2 years. There is no work around when internet is down. The copier becomes nonfunctional. This is a HUGE problem in schools because when internet is down, we often need to make paper copies to continue to do the lessons we had planned to do online. Also, the settings are not all functional. For instance, it defaults to 2 sided copies and I cannot print from my computer to the copier for one sided copies. This is an issue if I'm printing personalized, confidential information such as grade reports. Also, my experience has been that it seems to glitch a lot. I will put in for it to copy 35 copies and it runs 1.

Avantages

I truly like that this software makes you think twice about printing by displaying the total cost to print your request. Budgeting allows you to charge printing jobs to specific departments. The built in reminders that you can print double-sided or in black and white to save money are helpful as well.

Inconvénients

There are few things that I can think of that I would change about the product. It occasionally freezes and needs to be reset or has issues opening when used via a VPN. These issues are minor and infrequent.

Avantages

PaperCut is an exceptionally nice software that allows you to print for a price. I think the most amazing thing about PaperCut for me is that it estimates and discourages your paper use constantly, which I really appreciate. The way this software has been conceptualized really is amazing because it is so detailed for a software that is made to print! It shows your transaction history, recent print jobs, and even jobs pending release. Personally, I am very fond of PaperCut. I even like its logo; I think it's well-designed.

Inconvénients

I don't like the fact that there is no two-way communication with PaperCut. For example, if a print job is ordered but suppose the printer is not working, PaperCut will still process the transaction and charge you accordingly. This really hurts students who are on a budget. I wish they came up with an idea to ensure that the software charges people only when the printer actually prints the paper.

Avantages

Very easy to setup. Integrates with Microsoft Active Directory and gives you tons of different options to allow your users to print. Mobility printing is a game changer, especially if you have a lot of visitors to your company that may need to print but you don't want to give them the keys to your kingdom. There are many different reports you can run depending on what kind of data you need to look at. Web interface means I can manage it from wherever.

Inconvénients

Lots of sub-menus. Sometimes the thing you want to do is buried under numerous tabs inside of other pages. The software does have a search feature which helps and after you spend some time in the software, you'll figure out where everything is.

Avantages

I have used PaperCut NG and latterly MF for 8+ years. The product is easy to implement and upgrade. It just works! Support is first class on the few times I have had to contact them.

Inconvénients

I can’t really think of a downside to the product. It’s well engineered.

Avantages

PaperCut is clearly built by modern geeks that get it. They understand what users want, and build it. The software isn't some dated stodgy offering - it's fresh, packed with features, looks fantastic, is reliable, flexible, and super well documented. The culture really shows through! I wish all software was this good.

+Follow-Me Printing
+Google CloudPrint
+Apple AirPrint
+Web Print
+Email to Print
+Works with virtually any device, printer, MFP, copier
+Awesome web interface
+Easy upgrades
+Great support
+Constant development progress
+Google Integration including SSO

Inconvénients

-Some MFPs have better support than others

Avantages

PaperCut is a strong enterprise level "follow me print" application that allows you to easily deploy and maintain a centralized printer fleet.

This application helps reduce waste, enforce security policies, and provide centralized support/administration for IT.

Inconvénients

So far I haven't found many cons. There have been some dififculty adapting some devices onto the application's printer drivers, but, the issues have been resolved with excellent product and technical support from the PaperCut team.

Avantages

Users are in control of their own expenditure.
Works across printing and photocopying.
Linux, MacOS and Windows for server and users.

Inconvénients

Doesn't catch USB dongle printing on Ricoh MFD.
Made by developers for developers, no thought is given to UX.
Lack of integrations and cloud service.
Google Cloud print integration stinks to set up and so hard to use you won't want to roll it out to users.
You have to be comfortable editing text files to take full advantage of features.
No integration with invoicing software indicates the company's focus is not on administration.

Avantages

Very stable software .Easy to use with many needed functions.

Inconvénients

Sometimes it is hard to configure some functions.

Avantages

This software is one of the most complete printing management software. It help reduce cost in printing, and helps ecological sustainability. It saves lots of paper, and its managment controller helps having control of the entire printing system.

Inconvénients

The initial implementation is not that easy, and adding more devices also. The price is a bit higher, but it pays back.