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PaperCut NG

This is a fully functional 40-day evaluation version of PaperCut NG.

After using PaperCut NG for the defined trial period, please either email us to purchase a license to unlock the program, or remove the evaluation version from your system(s).

If you have less than five user accounts on your network domain, you may continue to use PaperCut NG free of charge after the trial period.

PaperCut NG Implementation Guide in PDF format

The PaperCut NG Implementation Guide is written for IT managers and network administrators deploying PaperCut NG on a medium to large network.

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PaperCut NG User Guide in PDF format

The PaperCut NG User Guide is an essential download. It contains the technical information necessary to get PaperCut up and running.

The application download below includes the online user manual.

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PaperCut NG 8.5 (Build 6595)

Latest release notes at bottom of page

PaperCut NG for Windows Servers

The PaperCut NG installation program for Windows. This installer also includes the user guide, the client software for Windows, Apple Mac OSX and Linux workstations, and the Linux binaries to support Linux based secondary servers.
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PaperCut NG for Linux Servers (i686)

The PaperCut NG installation program for Linux (i686) servers running CUPS or Samba print queues. This installer also includes the user guide and the client software for Windows, Apple Mac OSX and Linux workstations.

We recommend reading the quick start guide before installing.

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PaperCut NG for Mac OS X (Universal)

The PaperCut NG installation program for Mac OS X servers (the system hosting the print queues). This installer also includes the user guide and the client software for Windows, Apple Mac OSX and Linux workstations.

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PaperCut NG For Novell

The PaperCut NG installation program for Novell OES Linux (SP1+) servers running iPrint, CUPS or Samba print queues. This installer also includes the user manual and the client software for Windows, Apple Mac OSX and Linux workstations.

Important: Novell support is currently in beta testing. Please read the information on the beta testing page before downloading.

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What is an Evaluation Version?

Evaluation versions provide a way of obtaining and evaluating software, giving users the opportunity to try a program on their own network or computer before buying it. While evaluation versions are copyrighted, and the copyright holder retains all rights, the author specifically grants a user the right to freely evaluate and distribute the program, with limited exceptions. After using the evaluation version for the defined trial period (40 days), the user must purchase a registration key or remove the evaluation version from their system(s).

22 October 2008 - PaperCut NG 8.5 (Build 6595)

New features:

New iPhone and mobile device support for end-user web page features. Allows users to view their balance, environmental impact and redeem TopUp/Prepaid card from their mobile devices. Administrators can also user their iPhone to administer PaperCut.
Include Vista Gadgets to show user balance and environmental impact.
Added web widgets which can be used on your Intranet to show user balance and environmental impact.
Added 9 new reports:
- Department printing - summary
- Office printing - summary
- Printer Environmental Impact - summary
- Printer usage - user summary
- Shared account printing invoice - job type summary
- Shared account Printing - Ratios report
- Group Printing - Ratios report
- Printer usage - Ratios report
- Topup/Prepaid cards report
On the Mac, display user client messages using Growl notifications if Growl is installed.
Add support for the CardSmith payment service in the payment gateway module.

Enhancements:

Display the report parameters at the top of the reports so it is clear what criteria was used to create it.
Added more filter options to most of the existing reports (e.g. department, office, groups, activity dates, account charged, etc).
Made more reports available for scheduling and emailing.
Improved the "job type summary" reports to accurately report color and grayscale page counts for printers using page-level color detection.
Improved the usability of the Shared Account sync page. It was too easy to enable this option by mistake.
Improved usability of server commands and web services that started server tasks in the background (e.g. backup or import tasks).
Improved authentication of users on Active Directory domains where the "guest" account is enabled.
Allowed the server authentication TTL settings to be overridden by the user client config file or command line options.
Improved the reliability of importing users/groups from large/slow Active Directory domains.
Add new server-commands and web services to set/get simple printer costs, set/get group quota allocations, and add new groups.
Various improvements to the end-user shared accounts page.
Add links to the "About" page to allow users to more easily add more users to their license or renew their premium support.
Improved debug logging in user client to help diagnose client startup problems.
Add a command-line option to the user client to enable debugging mode.
Various documentation improvements.
Updated translations for Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Spanish, Italian and Czech.

Fixes:

Fixed rare problem in release station that could cause it to stop responding.
Changed application server service configuration to stop the service being restarted under very high system CPU load.
Fixed problem displaying PDF reports in Czech.
Sort the transaction log report so that the latest transactions are listed first.
Sort the user list report by username.
Improved the Mac user client logon hook script to ensure that any existing/zombie user client processes are stopped when a new user logs in.
Novell: Improved auto-detection of eDirectory LDAP settings.
Novell: Automatically remove the server context from the usernames when recording print job information.
Fixed an error when scheduling reports if using Oracle database.
Improved system reliability after the configured external database was unavailable for a period.
Net Control: Fixed problem when using Squid proxy on Linux to authenticate with Windows. The domain component of the username was not being correctly stripped from the username.
Updated timezone information to support the latest Daylight-savings and other timezone information.
Fixed a problem on new linux installs that would causes print popups to be slower than they should be.
Improved reliability of the PayPal Payflow link integration.
Updated the internal database version for improved performance and stability.

Page counting improvements:

Improved page count for HP 5500 PCL6 drivers.
Improved document name reporting when printing from Mac Adobe applications to Windows print queues.
Improved color detection for the HP Color Laser Jet 3500 PCL 6 driver.
Added support for Canon imagePROGRAF iPF5100 and related printers on the Mac.
Improved page size detection to ensure the page length is reported correctly for linear charging model.
Improved page size detection when printing to some HP printers from Adobe Indesign on the Mac.

10 September 2008 - PaperCut NG 8.4 (Build 6402)

Enhancements:

Various minor clarifications to terminology used in the user interface.
Various documentation improvements, including large improvements to the print authentication chapter.

Fixes:

Fixed problem running scheduled report when multiple adhoc parameters are used.
Fixed problem populating the LDAP defaults during initial installation.
Added a time-out when attempting to establish a connection with the database. This can improve reliability when there are when there are network communication problems with the external database.

Page counting improvements:

Improved paper size detection for Epson printers for Mac.
Improved page level color detection for PCL5 based printers.
Improved page count detection for PCL6 based printers.
Added support for the Konica-Minolta Bizhub 163 and other Konica Minolta GDI printers.
Fixed page-level colour detection problem for FX DocuPrint C3290 FS Postscript driver.

11 August 2008 - PaperCut NG 8.4 (Build 6255)

This release includes the following changes:

Addressed issue where adding extra network groups via the Add/Remove groups page may remove previously added groups.
Fixed an install issue seen on Apple Mac secondary print servers.
Minor documentation improvements.

7 August 2008 - PaperCut NG 8.4 (Build 6244)

New features:

Native support for iPrint queues on Novell OES Linux. For more information see the associated news item.
New "Internal Users" feature. This feature allows managing a set of users in addition to those in the configured user directory. It can be used for managing guest users (who may not have a domain account), or in organizations without a directory server.
New client authentication feature allowing authentication to be remembered forever.
Allow very large account lists to be efficiently distributed to remote sites with slow network connections. See the developer blog for more information.
New shared account invoice report to display the detailed print logs allocated to each account.
Allow display of a custom currency sign/symbol. This is useful in organizations using a currency different to their standard national currency.
Add support for the UK's Barclaycard ePDQ CPI card payment service in the payment gateway module.

Enhancements:

A variety of enhancements to the "Bulk Account Operations" feature:
- Allow changes to be applied to a subset of accounts based on the account name.
- Allow modifying the account security settings for multiple accounts at once.
- Allow accounts to be deleted in bulk.
Large performance improvements viewing print logs and running print reports for sites using the default/internal database. The database settings are now better optimized for database queries that run over large datasets.
Reduce the amount of client account data downloaded by the client by 25 to 30 times. This could dramatically speed up the loading of accounts over slow network connections. See the developer blog for more information.
Improved support for Mac OS X when users have multiple "short names".
Improved performance and reduced server resource usage when the users client downloads large account lists.
Improved performance when modifying shared account security settings on many (10's of thousands) accounts at once.
Improved performance of retrieving members of a group from LDAP. This also reduces the number of concurrent connections to the LDAP server.
Added a new print charging model to charge by "Paper length". This can be used as an alternative to paper area charging for large format plotters.
Allowed the 'initial creation rules' to be re-applied to either a single user or a group of users. This can be done through the user interface and server-command tool.
Improved the display and layout of the Shared Accounts list displayed in the end-user web pages.
Mac/Linux: Automatically populate LDAP settings during installation.
Added a username filter to the account transactions page, making it easier to find transactions for a given user.
Improved support for complex domain hierarchies by following "referrals" sent by Active Directory.
Improved documentation for creating and installing SSL certificates.
Added new server-command and web services API to list all shared accounts and the shared accounts available to a given user.
Improved the client launcher "pc-client-local-cache.exe" to more aggressively retry starting the client when problems occur.
Improved setup/install documentation by adding a separate section for each platform.
Linux: Add an uninstall script to automate the uninstallation process.
Updated translations for Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Spanish, Italian and Czech.

Fixes:

Fixed a problem that could stop printing notification messages to be delivered to user clients under some circumstances.
Fixed a rare problem that could stop a job from appearing in the release station. This problem could only occur when the release station timeout was set to a very long period.
Improved reliability of the print popup notifications when the user does not exist in PaperCut and needs to identify themselves using the client tool's identity dialog.
Improved security of the client identity dialog which is displayed when the logged in user does not exist in PaperCut.
Fixed an error that could occur on the printer charts and statistics page.
Improved support for processing very large spool files (greater than 1.5 GB) on Windows.
Improved reliability of page-level color detection of very large images in PCL print jobs.
Improved reliability and error reporting during scheduled quota allocations.

Page counting improvements:

Improved page counting for duplex documents for a variety of PCL and Postscript printers.
Improved copy count detection for the Seiko Teriostar LP-1010L.
Improved page size detection for custom paper size with PCL 5 printer drivers.
Fixed page count problem with Xerox booklet printing setting used on the APEOS PORT II - C7500.
Linux/Mac: Added paper size detection support for the CUPS raster spool file format.
Add support for the FXPLW language used by the FujiXerox DocuCentre Color 400 CP and other FujiXerox printers.
Improved page count and page size detection for printing for HPGL plotters.