Print Manager Plus permit you to track, quota and/or restrict printing and printer usage by dollar amount, number of pages per job, size and document folder type for a full print management solution. It installs in seconds on any Windows Server or Work Group network setup and tracks printing from any Windows, Macintosh or UNIX operating system. Widely used print management software. Print Manager Plus is in benefit by government agencies, schools and corporations on over 10,000 print servers world-wide. Pays for itself within 10 days. Its so cost effective it often pays for itself within 10 days. Microsoft Logo Certified and 2003 Server Verified. Print Manager Plus has passed rigorous testing by Veritest to obtain Microsoft Logo Certification and Verification, doing it the only logo certified print tracking product available today. A full software solution. Print Manager Plus requires no additional hardware between the printers and your network. Fast and facile to set up and maintain. Installs in seconds and immediately tracks all printing that spools through your print server. In minutes, with the benefit of User Group defaults, you can implement a quota system or group/printer specific restrictions for your entire network. Simple licensing. The product is licensed by print server. Each license covers UNLIMITED printers, users and workstations. Print Manager Plus 2008 Standard Academic Edition is a software only print management product. It is licensed per a single print server running Windows Server or Workstation NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008. The product install changes nothing in the Windows infrastructure and relies only upon the standard Windows print subsystem. Larger organizations running Windows Clustered servers, and Terminal Services or CITRIX based networks are also fully supported! 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 simply installed and administered. Scalable to any size, it will audit, track, restrict, and secure your printing infrastructure. Administrators hold on because Print Manager Plus will do the work for you. Product usability is way in the future, with an facile installation and setup, and full integration with Windows Server, Print Manager Plus will literally run itself. The full data and control provided by the product will save you thousands of dollars in printing costs and teach your users to print responsibly. With over 10 years of experience in the Print Management arena and by surveying and listening to our customers it has made Print Manager Plus the #1 Print Management software in the world, which is used in thousands of Schools, Universities, Libraries, Corporations, Governments, and Individual consultants. Supporting our customers is our #1 priority, and to do this we have through the years maked a network of over 125 resellers and distributors in over 65 countries. Our own internal sales and sustain staff is offered in 13 languages fluently, which gives us one of the highest customer maintenance renewal retention rates in the industry. Installation Licensing Back to Top Print Manager Plus 2008 Standard 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 further domains within the same Active Directory Forest. Multiple un-trusted domains or multiple organizations are not licensed when using this licensing scheme. When purchasing for a Microsoft Cluster setup a license must be purchased for each physical node. Print Manager Plus 2008 Standard Small Business Edition is the full product but is limited to monitoring no further than 5 Printers and 35 Users. Optional: The Workstation Connected Printer Agent is licensed per workstation that has a locally connected printer that needs to be managed. Optional: The Release Station Option is licensed per site and runs on the same print server that Print Manager Plus has been installed on. Note: The Print Server is defined as the computer which has Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 operating system installed, and where your printers are installed and shared doing them accessible to all users on your domain(s) or Work Group. System Requirements Back to Top Print Manager Plus installs on any Windows Server or Workstation NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008. The product install changes nothing in the Windows infrastructure and relies only upon the standard Windows print subsystem. Larger organizations running Windows Clustered servers, and Terminal Services or CITRIX based networks are also fully supported! Installation Options Back to Top Print Manager Plus has two installation options. The first is a full setup which installs the Print Manager Plus service on the print server and the administrator interface and reports as one setup. The second install option only installs the Administrator interface and reports, which would be installed on the Administrators workstation. The Print Manager Plus service is comprised of records and the database which actively run live on the print server capturing all print jobs. The database may also be remotely setup on another machine. The Print Manager Plus Administrator comprises of records which make up the interface and reporting tools used for administration of the product. * Silent install records exist for all install options and can be made available upon request. Database Options Back to Top Print Manager Plus gives you three database options upon install and will automatic setup the database selected. Currently Print Manager Plus supports Microsoft Access, MSDE, SQL 2005 Express, and SQL 7.0, 2000, 2005 These setup options are: * Create a Local Microsoft Access Database – Light Printing Load Recommended for one print server and printing up to 750 print jobs a day. * Create a Local SQL 2005 Express Database – Medium Printing Load Recommended for one print server printing up to 5,000 print jobs per a day. * Create a Print Manager Plus database on an Existing SQL 7.0/2000/2005 Server Recommended for one or multiple print servers printing unlimited jobs per a day. This configuration is also recommended when using Microsoft Clustered Servers.