Pcounter Windows

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Pcounter for Netware
Installation Guide
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Contents Pcounter Requirements..................
............................... Pcounter for
NDPS/IPrint Installation..........................
... Pcounter Additional Information...............
...................... Pcounter for Queue Based
Printing............................... Suppported
features......................... Evaluation/Supp
ort Information...................................
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Pcounter Requirements
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 NDPS/IPrint Installation
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). Follow the Install wizard (Please see
next screen)
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Pcounter NDPS/IPrint 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. Open Pcontrol to continue the
installation
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Browse and highlight the NDPS Manager. Then
click on the Pcounter button in the tool bar.
This will open the main configuration settings
for Pcounter
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Global Settings
Set the log location for Pcounter.
then
Select Grant attribute rights (Please see next
page for more details).
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Browse to the highest context and click Select.
Click the Grant button.
This process will give the NDPS Manager the
following rights
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Global Settings
Click on Install server files
This will copy all the required files to
\\SYS\SYSTEM on the server which is hosting the
NDPS Manager.
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Global Settings
Click on Default Printer configuration
profile This will allow you to set a default
configuration for all Printers
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Default Printer Settings
For basic logging Set the Accounting to Log
file only NOTE Other Accounting options are
available but printing could be effected if
quota\balances have not been assigned.
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For basic logging Set all prices for all page
sizes 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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Select the Printer Agents option Highlight the
printer you want Pcounter to monitor Click the
Add accounting button
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Click the Startup button This will start the
accounting on the Printer Agent
The accounting status should now be Active It
also shows you which version of Pcounter you are
running
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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
Non-secure IPrint Options
Pcounter has multiple options to automatically
search the Tree to validate users
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Pcounter for Queue Based Printing
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
support_at_altman.co.uk
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Check Eval / Registration of Pcounter
Select the Registration and trial period
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SUPPORTED FEATURES (1/4)
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
multi-function devices on the market today.  
Support for TIFF printing is included, and
Pcounter also tracks plot size on HPGL/2 and
PostScript plotters. 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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SUPPORTED FEATURES (2/4)
Windows users may have a popup window for billing
print jobs to clients/job numbers. 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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SUPPORTED FEATURES (3/4)
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. 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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SUPPORTED FEATURES (4/4)
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. 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. All trademarks contained in this
document are the properties of their respective
owners.
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Do you have any questions ? Contact us ...
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Road, Leeds, LS14 1PQ, U.K. T 0113 273 0300 F
0113 273 0302 Outside UK 44 113 273
0300/0302 W www.altman.co.uk Technical support
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