Printcop: next generation printer accounting!

NEWS: Printcop 3.0 is coming February 2004!

Based on the Common Unix Printing System

Able to direct to a printer based on job content

Pay by the page printed (after small startup cost) or buy the system outright

Printcop is a turnkey system giving an administrator

• The ability to password-protect access to any PCL (HP) or Postscript printer
• The ability to bill any Windows, Macintosh (OS X), Unix, Linux, or Solaris user per page for pages printed
• Optionally to allow Windows  user (others coming soon) to add a per-print-job job number or case number

Printcop is also

• Easy to administer; most systems functions are accessible via password-protected web interface
• Scalable: based on Linux (or FreeBSD or Solaris), which can work on systems sized from departmental server to mainframe
• Flexible: open architecture allows easy back-end interface to any database or accounting system.
  Complete customization to fit your business is available!

Potential applications of Printcop

• Real estate brokers can use Printcop to recover the cost of a high-speed color network printer provided for agent use.
• Attorneys and advertising agencies can use Printcop to easily keep track of print jobs for clients, with much greater accuracy than by using Equitrac.
• Schools and universities can control student printer use and recoup printer costs with Printcop.

• The previously available version has been made a historical curiosity by CUPS, but is still available for any reason you want it. Contact us for details.
• You can buy a traditionally-licensed system from us, including 1 year of unlimited technical support, with yearly renewals (pricing to be announced shortly).
• We also offer pay-by-the-page pricing and support, where you pay only for the pages you print (after a small startup cost), and we also keep a backup copy on our secure servers of your printer accounting information. With this option we also offer replacement hardware at nominal cost after the warranty period.