A quick look at PaperCut Quota™
Important
PaperCut Quota has been superceded by PaperCut NG which has all the features
of Quota and much more. Read more ...
This page presents a quick overview of PaperCut Quota's features.
You can also explore further into these sub-sections:
And of course also
download the software to explore and trial for yourself.
Administer user accounts...
- Manage user credit and access
- Monitor expenditure
- Track pages printed
- Track internet usage

Charge for printing and internet..
- Set printing cost on a per printer basis
- Monitor printer use and load
- Define internet cost using a time based or per megabyte charging model

Control Groups...
- Monitor printing at the domain group level
- Schedule automatic credit allocation
- Define rules for automatic account creation (self management)

Advanced Printer Management...
- Charge by page size or page area
- Provide discounts for grayscale and duplex documents
- Choose different charging methods for each printer
- Filter (restrict) documents by size, cost, color mode or name
- Automatically detect and delete duplicate print jobs

View Print & Internet Use History...
- Recent print jobs
- Printing statistics
- Other screens for internet use and detailed logs and reports

Details...
- Detailed printing audit on all printers
- Detailed internet usage logging
- Export data to Microsoft Access or Excel for graphing and reporting

Web Tools & Administration ...

Reporting...
- Use the pre-build reports for monthly tracking
- Use network groups to construct department/year-level specific reports
- View graphs of printing and internet trends
- Build your own custom reports using Microsoft Access
- Advanced web reporting, including single click export to Excel
- Export the raw data into Microsoft Excel for detailed trend analysis



The PaperCut "User Inquiry Tool"
- Display the user's account status on login
- Warns user when balance is low
- Install on network clients
- Choice of Zero install deployment or scripts for automatic "push" installs
- Optional (PaperCut is 100% server-side. No client software is required)


What you can't see!
- No yearly fees
- Free email support direct from the developers
- A friendly and approachable development team.
- Free version upgrades for minor "point" releases
- A modest upgrade fees for major version releases
- Download evaluation