Pcounter Overview

Pcounter is a flexible and highly scalable network server-based print management and accounting solution that provides a wide range of cost control and cost recovery capabilities. Waste and misuse is eliminated, resulting in dramatic cost savings across any type of organisation.

Pcounter is ideal for identifying "black-holes" of cost within any organisational structure, helping to justify the rationalisation and re-allocation of print resources and then enforcing a print policy based on sensible rules and restrictions.


Schools, Colleges and Universities

Professional

Pcounter eliminates waste, provides quota management with cost recovery options - ideal for charging and non - charging environments. Pcounter provides the means to account for staff and department usage for total budgetary control.

Architects, Engineers, Surveyors, Solicitors, Accountants: Pcounter provides project costing and client billing capabilities ensuring that all print and plotter output is accounted for and charged back where appropriate

Public Sector

Corporate and Finance

Pcounter provides monitoring, accounting and reporting based on cost centres enabling budgetary control to be implemented over what is typically an unaccounted resource.

Pcounter is ideal for providing department accountability and costings with options for ensuring security and confidentiality of all printed output.


Waste and Misuse

All organisations suffer from waste - here are just a few examples that Pcounter will address:

  • Stop duplicate printing - repeated clicking on the print icon
  • Printing off the internet producing badly formatted pages
  • Printing all pages of a document when only one page is required
  • Populating Excel spreadsheet cells with values that generate enormous page counts
  • Printing to the wrong or least cost-effective printer

Key Benefits

  • Total accountability - who printed what, where, when and how much
  • Accurate assessment of print volumes across all print devices
  • Dramatic cost savings through the elimination of waste and misuse
  • Monitors and enforces defined print policy
  • Cost recovery options for academic and professional services
  • Total control across charging and non-charging environments
  • Security and confidentiality of output