Transcript Pcounter Windows

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Installation Guide
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Pcounter for Netware
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Pcounter Requirements.................................................
Pcounter for NDPS/IPrint Installation.............................
Pcounter Additional Information.....................................
Pcounter for Queue Based Printing...............................
Suppported features.........................
Evaluation/Support Information......................................
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Contents:
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Software requirements for PCOUNTER.NLM (NDS queues)
• NetWare 4.10 or above
Software requirements for PCOUNTDP.NLM (NDPS)
• NetWare 5.x or later with NDPS installed
• Support Pack 6 or later required with NetWare 5.0, or Support Pack 2 or later required with NetWare 5.1.
Software requirements for Win32 utilities
• Windows 9x, 2000, or later
• Novell Client for Windows
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Pcounter Requirements
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Pcounter NDPS/IPrint Installation
Follow the Install wizard
(Please see next screen)
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Pcounter is downloaded
from our website. Once
the files are extracted
run the setup.exe on a
windows PC. (The Novell
Client for Windows is
required).
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Pcounter NDPS/IPrint Installation
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Open Pcontrol to continue the installation
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The Pcounter client applications will now be installed on this PC. The
main “backend” application is Pcontrol. This application will allow you
to configure Pcounter on all your print servers.
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This will open the
main
configuration
settings for
Pcounter
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Browse and highlight the NDPS
Manager. Then click on the
“Pcounter” button in the tool
bar.
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Global Settings:
Select “Grant
attribute rights”
(Please see next page
for more details).
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Set the log location
for Pcounter.
then
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Browse to the highest
context and click Select.
Click the Grant button.
NDS ATTRIBUTE
RIGHTS GRANTED
Account balance
Read/Write/Inheritable
Allow unlimited credit
Read/Write/Inheritable
Low balance limit
Read/Write/Inheritable
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This process will give the
NDPS Manager the
following rights:
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Global Settings:
This will copy all the required files
to \\SYS\SYSTEM on the server
which is hosting the NDPS
Manager.
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Click on “Install
server files”
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Global Settings:
“Default Printer
configuration profile“
This will allow you to set
a default configuration
for all Printers
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Click on
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Default Printer Settings:
For basic logging:
NOTE:
Other “Accounting”
options are
available but
printing could be
effected if
quota\balances
have not been
assigned.
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Set the
“Accounting” to
‘Log file only’
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For basic logging:
NOTE:
If a page size is NOT ticked
Pcounter will stop that size
from being printed. e.g. If
letter is not ticked and the
printer driver is defaulted
to letter this will stop users
from printing.
To enable/disable colour
detection select this option.
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“Set all prices” for all page
sizes
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Highlight the printer you
want Pcounter to monitor
Click the “Add accounting”
button
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Select the “Printer Agents”
option
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Click the “Startup” button
The “accounting status”
should now be ‘Active’
It also shows you which version of
Pcounter you are running
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This will start the accounting on
the Printer Agent
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Additionally a console screen is loaded on the server. From here you
can check the version, maintenance and which agents are loaded
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Pcounter Additional Information
Pcounter has
multiple options to
automatically
search the Tree to
validate users
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Non-secure IPrint
Options
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Pcounter also supports traditional Queue Based printing
This type of printing requires additional configuration
For a complete guide for setting up Queue Based Printing
please contact us:
T: 0113 273 0300
E: [email protected]
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Pcounter for Queue Based Printing
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Check Eval / Registration of Pcounter
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Select the “Registration and
trial period”
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SUPPORTED FEATURES (1/4)
Enforces printing account balances/quotas for users. Stores the balance(s) for
quotas in the NDS/eDirectory. Users can check their balances via web browser
or using WBalance, a small Windows utility that runs in the system tray.
Keeps a log file of all print activity - for printers hosted on multiple servers the
log can be kept in one central location for easy access. The log file includes
user name, document name, printer/queue name, date, time, client station,
client code, subcode, paper size, features, byte size, page count, cost, and
account balance.
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Counts pages printed on any PostScript or PCL printer, from all major
manufacturers such as HP, Xerox, Lexmark, Canon, and more. Also included
are Ricoh RPCS, Canon BubbleJet, ImageRunner, HPGL, Epson (ESC/P,
ESC/P2, ESC/PAGE) printers. This covers most lasers, inkjets, and multifunction devices on the market today. Support for TIFF printing is included,
and Pcounter also tracks plot size on HPGL/2 and PostScript plotters.
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SUPPORTED FEATURES (2/4)
The cost for each page is determined by the paper size used in the print job,
allowing variable costs for printers that support multiple paper sizes. Print jobs
requesting an invalid paper size can be discarded. Roll plotters can be
accounted for based on image size.
Can generate various printing usage reports and print histories of users,
printers, and client codes. Reports and histories can be saved as HTML, CSV,
or formatted text, can be directly launched into Excel or web browsers, and can
be sent by email.
Rules-based printing for load balancing based on maximum and minimum byte
sizes and/or page counts - print jobs can be deleted, moved to the end of the
queue, or moved to another print queue.
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Windows users may have a popup window for billing print jobs to clients/job
numbers.
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A Plot Manager handles batch submission of printer-ready files to printers and
plotters, including support for client billing codes and scheduling.
Reject incorrect print job types such as Postscript on PCL printers.
Network broadcast messages can be customised and sent at any time to keep
users informed.
Customisable banner pages can be used which contain all information about
the print job, including the page count and account balance.
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All print jobs can be automatically held/paused, and global (print job
configuration) settings for queues can be automatically enforced. Each server
has a default template that can be used globally for all print queues on that
server.
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The Pcounter workstation tools (popup and account balance information) are
internationalised in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Finnish, Dutch,
Czech, Swedish, Danish, Polish, and Norwegian.
Pcounter can be used to enforce global print job configurations on queues, which
can enable or disable banner, form feed, and notify settings without needing to
worry about workstation settings.
Pcounter can automatically assign print job ownership from other platforms (such
as Mac and Unix) by searching the NDS tree or bindery, or delete the job if an
owner cannot be found.
Pcounter supports iPrint and NDPS clustering.
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Administration can be done from any Windows workstation or server on the
network, including printer/queue set-up, configuration, properties, permissions,
and print job management.
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