Printer management

This section covers some of the more advanced printer management tasks. Advanced printer management has the following high-level concepts:

• Activity monitoring

• Encouraging appropriate use

• Managing the addition of new printers

This section addresses these management areas and covers tools available in PaperCut NG/MF to assist administrators.

What’s in this section?

• Add and remove/delete/ignore printers
• The template printer
• Copy printer settings
• Rename a printer
• Disable printers with time latches
• Set up differential charging
• Convert or block print jobs - filters and restrictions
• Manage printer groups
• Define cost adjustments
• Popup authentication
• Set the color detection method
• Switch to using SNMPv3
• Validate page counts using hardware checks
• Watermarking/job annotation
• Behavior on server connection failures
• Toner Levels (for supported printers)
• Refund print jobs
• Define custom printer fields
• Extract usernames in enterprise print environments (e.g. SAP, Unix)
• Printer FAQs