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Hybrid Cloud Solution

Print Director Hybrid Cloud Solution is a hosted print solution which enables organisations to remove the burden of having to manage on-premise print servers:

• Reduce printer server costs by removing print servers
• Reduce your IT departments workload
• Simplify software setup and installation

Working from Home?

If you have staff working from home, you want to know which company documents are being printed on the home printer and who is printing them to keep an audit trail of your confidential company documents.
If you are an employee working at home, you want to recover the costs of printer cartridges and paper for work documents printed.

For Educational Insitutions

Rule based printing and alerts
Limit users and/or devices when certain thresholds are met per month, week, day or any calendar period.

Charge for printing
Accept cash from users to replenish their accounts. Printing is denied when their balance reaches zero.
Users can see their balance on their workstation or on the LCD panel of the printer.

Summary and detailed information with usage analysis. Automatic, scheduled emailing of reports in Excel, PDF or Word.

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Benefits;
• Track paper output on printers, photocopiers and multifunction devices.
• Recover costs – charge for printing.
• Reduce waste.
• Discover optimal deployment of printing facilities.
• Better supplies management.
• Control access to office equipment.
• Centralise management of printing infrastructure.

About the Product

Flexible environments

Supports all printing environments including print servers (spooled printing), desktop printers, direct-to-IP printing and Google Cloud printing.

Extensive graphical reporting

Summary and detailed information with usage analysis
Automatic, scheduled emailing of reports in Excel, PDF or Word formats
Up to 3 levels of grouping by any attribute (User, Device, Department, Region, Phone number)

No extra hardware

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‘Follow Me’ printing

Print and then release at any device

How does the system work?

Google Cloud Print Integration

Print from Android, iOS, Windows or Chrome from anywhere in the World and have your documents routed to your corporate ‘Follow Me’ system
Silent auditing of device usage
Secure print release and follow me (release at any device)

Rule based Printing & Alerts

Limit users and/or devices when certain thresholds are met per month, week, day or any calendar period
Educate users via popups or emails with advice on duplex or black & white printing
Alert management via email when certain user or device, total or colour thresholds are met
Automatically change email print jobs to black & white or large print jobs to duplex

Administrative automation

Integration with Active Directory
User defaults (Rules, software access) automatically inherited from their department
Send user PINs directly from software
Auto-load user email address for Scan-to-Me. No need to manually load device address books
Offline operation if connection to central database is lost (very effective in WAN environments)
Silent auditing of device usage
Secure print release and follow me (release at any device)
Extensive rule enforcement on a per user basis (access to devices, colour printing, max pages, etc).
Reports can be automatically emailed to a number of recipients at user-specified intervals

Technical Specifications

Specifications

The minimum and recommended requirements listed are expressed with the assumption that the server will not be running any other services (e.g. domain controller, Exchange etc). Should the server be running other services, the specifications below should be adjusted accordingly.
Operating System
Print Director supports all Microsoft Windows operating systems from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2016. Desktop operated systems are supporting from Windows XP to Windows 10.
Runtime
Print Director is supported by the .Net Framework 2.0 through to 4.5. The only OS that might require an installation of .Net is Windows XP. All later versions of Windows have .Net pre-installed so no manual installation is required.

Recommendations:

0-5 MFPs: 40GB free space
20-50 MFPs 100GB free space
50-100 MFPs: 200 GB free space

RAM
The minimum requirement for RAM is 2GB. The recommended requirements are based on the number of MFPs hosted by the server:

0-4 MFPs: 2GB
5-20 MFPs: 4GB
20-100 MFPs: 8GB