Did you know that excess printing incurs huge costs on education / academic institutions? The costs are often hidden and large and so over 20,000 schools, colleges and universities worldwide use PaperCut NG to control these costs.

In 1998, PaperCut first developed a print quota application to address a requirement in a local high school. Since then application and its company have grown and PaperCut has evolved into a full print management package now used in over 100 countries and 50,000 sites across all markets.

What is PaperCut?

It is a print accounting and print management software that has been developed over ten years specifically to help companies to save money on excess printing. It began as a tool to implement student print quotas in education and now PaperCut has expanded to cover all areas from business, to corporate and to government. It has become such a vital tool in correcting print audit negatives by making visible the failures and costs incurred to a business that they may not have been aware of. PaperCut champions the setting of reasonable budgets or quotas and allows active monitoring to control print usage across an organisation.

Key features for PaperCut in the Education Sector:

• Control student print quota, or charge for printing.
• Track and budget staff printing by faculty or department.
• Simple installation – starts working immediately.
• Directory integration with automatic user account creation.
• Simple web-based administration for office staff.
• Automatic scheduling of credit/quotas.
• Solutions for managing wireless laptop printing.
• Runs on Windows, Mac, Linux and Novell, making PaperCut the most flexible and integrated management solution available.

Popularity on the Increase

The organisation that created the original PaperCut software remains an engineering-led company with a focus on technology rather than flashy marketing. They have ingrained this ethos into their many other programmes and applications.

The unique selling point of PaperCut is that it is the only true cross-platform print control software available, providing full support for Windows, Mac, Linux and Novell network environments. It is an outstanding print management software ideal for businesses or corporations of all sizes, from schools to engineering, graphic design, architectural, and accounting firms to advertising, legal and IT.

With sustainability and the green initiatives become ever more prevalent in the modern work place; PaperCut encourages the responsible use of company resources and helps to create an environmentally friendly place of work and study.

Without any competitors on the market, PaperCut is set to go from strength to strength and with it so will office supply efficiency.