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Effective Page Accounting and Queue
Management is now within your reach.
With the rapid expansion of networks (e.g, LANs and WANs) within businesses of all sizes,
a greater reliance on the Internet and intranets, and the explosion of electronic
knowledge-sharing processes, it's tough to even know how many printers your organization
has, let alone track what they're doing. Understanding the total cost of office printing
is even more challenging. If your company is like most, fixed costs are the only measure
you have -- the cost of equipment, supplies and service.
But that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Independent research states that fixed costs represent only 10% of what your company is
actually spending. The other 90% -- the hidden burden of office printing -- is buried
throughout your organization -- in department budgets, in IT support and infrastructure,
in the time employees spend on printing. The greatest percentage resides in the hidden
costs of processes required to file, store, retrieve and share digital and paper
documents. The numbers are huge: typically about two percent of corporate revenues. That's
about equal to the entire IT budget in most companies.
Independent research states that fixed costs represent only 10% of what your company is
actually spending. The other 90% -- the hidden burden of office printing -- is buried
throughout your organization -- in department budgets, in IT support and infrastructure,
in the time employees spend on printing. The greatest percentage resides in the hidden
costs of processes required to file, store, retrieve and share digital and paper
documents. The numbers are huge: typically about two percent of corporate revenues. That's
about equal to the entire IT budget in most companies.
What about your company? How much are you spending and how much can you save?
You'll find the answers in an integrated office print strategy that helps you focus on
output costs across the enterprise: output presentation, data stream conversion, device
management, and page accounting management.
Now, with PCounter, there's a simple way to take control of costs where they originate --
with the devices themselves and the output they produce. PCounter is a tool that can track
and control what's happening with all of your office printers regardless of vendor, and on
both Windows NT and Netware platforms.
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| Product Highlights |
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Improve accountability and
control costs: |
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PCounter offers standard page
accounting, chargeback, and debit/credit. |
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Improve cross-charging and billing by
choosing exactly how you want to account for your workflow. |
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Create a feedback loop for system
administrators and end-users to monitor and manage print activity and usage. |
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Efficient tracking of print costs
provides the data that's needed for accurate client charging |
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Manage real-time challenges
for increased productivity: |
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Eliminate end user printing problems
-- overload, downtime, jams -- with drag and drop queue management to delete,
reprioritize, and move backlogged jobs. |
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Cut help desk costs and downtime with
a single point of control for output queues. |
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Improve network performance
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Maximize printer productivity and
minimize end user downtime by creating job rules that automatically reroute jobs to ready
printers. |
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Perform remote printer setups, rely on
status alerts, and reduce IT support costs by having a single point of access into device
management software -- regardless of vendor. PCounter launches any management software and
you can work within it, without ever leaving PCounter. |
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Server Software Requirements |
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NT 3.5.1, NT 4.0 or Win2000 |
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Software Processor and Speed: A server that meets or
exceeds Microsoft's NT/2000 operating requirements. |
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Software Required Disk Space (MB): 2 |
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Software Min Required RAM (MB): 128 |
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NetWare 3.x, 4.x and 5.x |
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Software Processor and Speed: A server that meets or
exceeds Novell's operating requirements. |
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Software Required Disk Space (MB): 2 |
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Software Min Required RAM (MB): 128 |
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| Other Specifications |
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Network Capability and Printer
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Server-based software application,
requiring no additional hardware. |
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Supports Novell's Network Device
Protocol System (NDPS). |
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Supports all print server attached
printers regardless of manufacture. |
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Supports PCL, HPGL2 and PostScript
data streams. |
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PCounter for NT service runs on NT
3.5.1, 4.0 and Win2000. |
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PCounter for NetWare NLM runs on
Novell 3.x and 4.x in bindery mode or Novell NetWare 4.x and 5.x in NDS mode. |
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Installation and Performance: |
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PCounter for NetWare 3.x, 4.x and 5.x
minimum server requirements: |
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A server that meets or exceeds Novell's operating
requirements. |
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2MB minimum additional RAM for PCounter NLM and
accounting for 48 printer queues. Each additional print queue requires 40KB of RAM. |
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Disk space requirements will vary depending on number of
print queues tracked and the activity associated with these queues. A size of 128 bytes
per entry would be an average. |
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PCounter for NetWare 3.x, 4.x and 5.x
minimum server requirements: |
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A server that meet or exceeds Microsoft's NT/2000
operating requirements. |
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2MB minimum additional RAM for PCounter NT services. |
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Disk space requirements will vary depending on number of
print queues tracked and the activity associated with these queues. A size of 128 bytes
per entry would be an average. |
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