Equitrac Express provides colleges, universities, K-12 schools and their libraries with protection against the costs and waste of uncontrolled printing.

Overview

ABOUT EQUITRAC EXPRESS     ·  Equitrac Express software lets you track, analyze, or charge for every page output by any student, faculty member, staffer or guest on any desktop printer, networked multifunction product or walk-up copier       MAJOR APPLICATIONS     ·  Cost reduction     ·  Printing device management and utilization     ·  Environmental impact       BENEFITS     ·  Institutes accountability for every page printed     ·  Eliminates unauthorized, excessive or wasteful printing     ·  Cost savings by directing output to the most efficient devices     ·  Generates revenue from printing with allocation of costs back to individuals, departments or grants     ·  Security for confidential documents     ·  Simplified administration improves service levels and reduces help desk calls     ·  Environmental benefits through the reduction of resources consumed       USING EQUITRAC EXPRESS     ·  Set student print quotes, determine who may print, how many pages and to which devices     ·  User's ID is required to print and every page is tracked holding user to their quota     ·  Automated user PIN management     ·  Print Assistant pop-up window lets users see cost, payment method and number of pages     ·  Follow-You Printing® lets you release print jobs at the most convenient device - anywhere on campus - so you can print where you are and avoid waiting for a device to free up     ·  Secure Document Release holds confidential print jobs in a secure queue until released for print by the document owner     ·  Send To printing lets users share documents by sending the ability to print to a distribution list (with or without charge)     ·  Track costs of documents depending on their attributes (i.e. color, duplex, stitching, etc.) and create different charging schedules for faculty, staff, students or walk-up patrons     ·  Equitrac's Device Monitoring Engine provides a single console to track devices' status including paper, toner levels, or errors     ·  Administrators can re-route jobs based on device status such as paper out, offline, jam, etc.     ·  Summary, detailed and total activity reports are available and data can be exported for analysis       IMPLEMENTING THIS SOLUTION     ·  Integrates with Print & Copy Control (PCC) and hardware control terminals     ·  Works with printers, copiers and multifunction products from Ricoh and other manufacturers     ·  Supports cash, smart or magnetic stripe stored-value cards, campus card systems or network printing accounts     ·  Integrates with existing networks and standards: Windows®, Novell® NetWare®, UNIX® and Citrix®     ·  Offline terminal data collection capability (track and recover costs where there is no network connection)     ·  Page counter terminal option for copy control and secure printing     ·  Scales from small single-server sites up to multi-campus district-wide networks with thousands of devices and users       COMPLEMENTARY PRODUCTS     ·  Print & Copy Control