Print Manager Plus Academic

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What is the difference between Print Manager Plus 2010 Standard Academic, and Small Business Edition Academic, and how are they licensed?

Version: 2010

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These versions have the same functionality and features, but are licensed and priced differently.

* Print Manager Plus 2010 Standard Academic Small Business Edition

The Small Business Edition is limited to a Work Group network or single file and print server with no more than 5 printers and 35 users. Maintenance is included and covers Upgrades/Updates and Phone support for 1 Year from date of purchase.

* Print Manager Plus 2010 Standard Academic

Print Manager Plus Standard is licensed per a print server. It covers unlimited users on the domain(s) and unlimited printers on the print server or workstation connected printers. Maintenance is included and covers Upgrades/Updates and Phone support for 1 Year from date of purchase.

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What does the academic site license cover?

Version: 2010

Issue Addressed:

Print Manager Plus is licensed per a print server. It covers unlimited users on the domain(s) and unlimited printers on the print server. An unlimited Academic site license covers one organization, and one or more domains within the same Active Directory Forrest. Multiple un-trusted domains, or multiple organizations are not licensed when using this licensing scheme.

Maintenance is included with all products, and covers Upgrades/Updates and Phone Support for One Year from the date of purchase.

Can students verify their print jobs before they print?

Version: 2010

Issue Addressed:

Print Manager Plus comes with a Print Job Verification application. The Print Job Verification tool can be installed locally on a workstation running Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Win7 or remotely through Active Directory. The functionality allows an Administrator to turn this on by printer.

When a user prints, their print job is paused on the print server in the print queue. Print Manager Plus sends a message to the user and the Print Job Verification tool pops up on the computer screen. It supplies the user with the exact print job data, such as: Document Name, # of Pages, Page Size, B/W, Color, Print Job Cost, and the new user account balance, if he then decides to print the job. The user then has a set amount of time to either allow the job to print, or delete the job. If neither is done the print job is automatically deleted from the print queue on the server.

The set amount of time the user has is set by the Administrator in the Print Manager Plus interface. The time can be set for any amount.

Does Print Manager Plus support a Workgroup, Active Directory, or LDAP?

Version: 2010

Issue Addressed:

Print Manager Plus will audit data from Network Sources such as Workgroups, Active Directory, and LDAP.

Network data collected is: User Name, User Group, Organization Unit, Workstation Name, Server Name, Printer Name, Printer Group, and Network Bandwidth.

Does Print Manager Plus support SMS?

Version: 2010

Issue Addressed:

Print Manager Plus and all of its components (End User Inquiry Tool, Authentication Module) come with a built in silent install which can be used with Microsoft's SMS or any other type of 3rd party Push Installer.

This also includes an INI file which will allow you to set Security, ODBC Settings, and other database settings within Print Manager Plus. Truly making Print Manager Plus a scalable Enterprise product.

Does Print Manager Plus support Microsoft Cluster Server?

Version: 2010

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Print Manager Plus does support Microsoft Cluster Server. One license must be purchased for each server that is clustered.

Does Print Manager Plus Require Software On The Client

Version: 2010

Issue Addressed:

Print Manager Plus only requires the product to be installed on the print server. The admin interface can be installed on a remote workstation for the Administrator to use.

Does Print Manager Plus Use Port Monitors?

Version: 2010

Issue Addressed:

Print Manager Plus does not use any type of Port Monitor. It does not change or replace anything in Windows. It has received logo approval from Microsoft.

* Verified for Windows 2003 Server.
* Certified for Windows XP/Vista
* Certified Microsoft Backoffice.

What Operating System does Print Manager Plus run on?

Version: 2010

Issue Addressed:

Print Manager Plus services can be installed on:

* Windows 2008 Server
* Windows 2003 Server
* Windows 2000 Server
* Supports Microsoft Cluster
* Windows Core Services
* Supports Citrix and Terminal Services Environments

The product can also be run on an 2000/XP/Vista/Win7 Workstation, but we recommend that your print server is setup on Windows Server O/S.

The remote Administrator for Print Manager Plus can be installed on an 2000/XP/Vista/Win7 Workstation.

What printers can Print Manager Plus track?

Version: 2010

Issue Addressed:

Print Job data is translated into specific datasets which can be used for full featured auditing and cost analysis.

Print Job data collected is: Pages, Copies, Color, Duplex, Nup, Page Size, Document Title, Bandwidth, Cost, Square Unit and Linear Job Length, Custom Sheet Size for Large Format Printers.

Printers Audited

Printers supported by Print Manager Plus are in the hundreds. Listing them would be lengthy and not show the actual technical quality of the product functionality without some background data.

Print Manager Plus was created by request from the IT industry at the inception of Microsoft's Windows NT server release. Software Shelf took on the challenge of surveying and developing a simple, and easy to use software based product, and it did in 1998 releasing our 1.0 version of Print Manager Plus. We found that tracking print jobs from operating systems was not as easy as we thought it would be. The development route we took required that we audit the actual spooled print job file that the printer hardware deciphers to actually print the job. This required us to be able to look at separate print languages that the printer manufactures write for their hardware. Since then we have deciphered and audit hundreds of print languages. This allows Print Manager Plus to track the data needed for a complete audit of all printing traffic over any size network and any printer type.

Printers Audited includes: All Inkjets, All LaserJets, All Plotters, All Large Format Printers, All Multifunctional Devices (printing only), HP Multifunctional Devices (printing and walk-up copies).

Current Print Languages Supported:

Brother HBP - Host Based Printing
Brother NCM - Native Compression Mode
Brother XL2HB
Canon CAPT - Canon Advanced Printing Technology
Canon UFR - Ultra Fast Rendering
Canon UFR II - Ultra Fast Rendering
Canon Garo
DPL (Dell Printer Language)
Duplo DUPRINTER
EMF
Epson ESC/P
Epson ESC/Page
Epson ESC/Page2
Fuji
GDI (All Versions) - Graphics Device Interface
HP LIDIL - Lightweight Imaging Device Interface Language
HP PCL - Print Control Language (All Versions)
HP PCLXL - Print Control Language XL
HP PPA - Printer Performance Architecture
HP Universal Print Driver (Postscript)
HP Universal Print Driver (PCL)
HPBL
HPGL - BINCO
HPGL - HP Graphics Language
HPGL/2 - HP Graphics Language 2
KIPGL
KIP Script
Kyocera KPDL - Kyocera Print Definition Language
Kyocera Prescribe
Lexmark GDI
Microsoft XPS
OAKT - Oak Technology
OKI GDI
OKI HiperC
Panasonic GDI
PDF (All Versions) - Page Description Format
Postscript - (All Versions)
Prescribe - page description language (All Versions)
Printronix - PGL Printronix Graphics Language
Ricoh IPDL - Intelligent Page Description Language
Ricoh RPCS - Refined Printing Command Stream
Samsung QPDL
Samsung SMART
Tally Stream
Tally TCPL - Tally Compressed Printer Language
Text (RAW)
Xerox TIFF6/GDI
Zenographics ZIMF
Zenographics ZJStream

What Operating Systems can Print Manager Plus Monitor?

Version: 2010

Issue Addressed:

Print Manager Plus can monitor print jobs being printed from Windows 2008/2003/2000/NT 4.0, 3.51, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 3.1, DOS, Novell, Macintosh, UNIX (all flavors), Linux, and OS/2 clients.

It can also monitor mainframe printing flowed through Windows.

Can Print Manager Plus monitor printers attached to a workstation?

Version: 2010

Issue Addressed:

The Print Manager Plus Workstation Connected Printer Agent can do this.

Requirements: Installs on Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/Win7 Workstation.

This application based product can be installed on a workstation and allows the Administrator to Monitor, Quota, and Restrict printing on the locally attached printer and any users printing to that workstation connected printer.

This tool is great for companies that have locally attached workstations that they cannot monitor or Large Format Printers that they do not want to send large print jobs over the network to through their print server.

Once the product is installed on the workstation the Workstation Connected Printer Service will appear under the Servers tab in Print Manager Plus. Also all printers locally attached to that workstation will appear under the Printers tab. The local service can be Stopped, Started, and Restarted remotely. The service can also be updated remotely using E-Update.

There is a charge for this product. It is licensed per workstation with a locally connected printer. Go to this page for more information and a trial version:
http://www.softwareshelf.com/HTML/products/agents_options.asp

Also check out the your User Guide and look under the section on Workstation Connected Printer for a free way to setup tracking through Windows Protocols.

Will Print Manager Plus slow printing?

Version: 2010

Issue Addressed:

Print Manager Plus will pause every print job when it enters the Windows Print Spooler. The product needs to do this to be able to extract the information it needs from the print job. The print job is then released. This process is very quick and there is NO noticable slow in printing.

Can Print Manager Plus support multiple print servers?

Version: 2010

Issue Addressed:

The scalability of Print Manager Plus has been engineered for any size Workgroup, Network, or Enterprise. If you are a small school with only 2 printers or a University Department with 100 students, or an entire campus with multiple locations and thousands of students and printers, Print Manager Plus can be easily installed and administered. Scalable to any size, it will audit, track, restrict, and secure your printing infrastructure.

What database does Print Manager Plus support?

Version: 2010

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Print Manager Plus supports the following databases:

* Microsoft Access
* MSDE
* SQL Express 2005/2008
* SQL 7.0
* SQL 2000
* SQL 2005
* SQL 2008
* Oracle

Click on the link for the MSDE/SQL Configuaration Guide.

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Print Manager Plus Academic

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What is the difference between Print Manager Plus 2010 Standard Academic, and Small Business Edition Academic, and how are they licensed?

Issue Addressed:

What does the academic site license cover?

Issue Addressed:

Can students verify their print jobs before they print?

Issue Addressed:

Does Print Manager Plus support a Workgroup, Active Directory, or LDAP?

Issue Addressed:

Does Print Manager Plus support SMS?

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Does Print Manager Plus support Microsoft Cluster Server?

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Click here to download associated materials.

Does Print Manager Plus Require Software On The Client

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Does Print Manager Plus Use Port Monitors?

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What Operating System does Print Manager Plus run on?

Issue Addressed:

What printers can Print Manager Plus track?

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What Operating Systems can Print Manager Plus Monitor?

Issue Addressed:

Can Print Manager Plus monitor printers attached to a workstation?

Issue Addressed:

Will Print Manager Plus slow printing?

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Can Print Manager Plus support multiple print servers?

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What database does Print Manager Plus support?

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