Advanced Technology International USA M200 - Manual (Page 24)

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Advanced Technologies, Inc.
3758 West Devon Avenue | Lincolnwood, IL 60712 | USA
Sales: +1-800-815-6908 | Service: +1-847-329-9875 | Fax: +1-847-410-0094
Email: [email protected] | Web: http://www.tekvend.com
Print-Track ® Print Tracking Software
Product Overview
Print-Track ® is one of a suite of software products designed by Advanced
Technologies Inc. (TekVend) to control and account for copying and printing activity
on standalone copiers, networked digital copier-printers, and printers.
Print-Track is a revolutionary new printer control and accounting software product for
Windows PCs. Print-Track comes in two versions: Print-Track Plus, and Print-Track
Pro.
If you are interested in controlling copying, separately, or with printing, please
investigate our sister products Copy-Track
® and Image-Track ® respectively.
Both versions of Print-Track work stand-alone, on a small workgroup network, or on
a domain. Print-Track comes with three standard components: Print-Track Server,
Print-Track Client, and the common (networkable) database. A variation of Print-
Track Client, Print-Track Release Station can be licensed and used in conjunction
with a vending station for anonymous vending of print jobs.
Print-Track works with Win2000, XP Pro and Win 2003 clients. Print-Track Server
need not be mounted on a Win 2000 or 2003 server: it can be mounted on any
Admin logged-on PC on the Windows network, and it controls and accounts for any
printer locally attached to any PC on that network, including IP printers. Print-Track
Client should be (but does not have to be) mounted on all network PCs that originate
monitored print jobs, but it must be mounted on all network PCs that have locally
monitored printers. In "print for pay" or other "secure release" scenarios, Print-Track
Release Station should be installed on a designated PC other than the server PC. In
limited situations, the "fast switching" feature of XP Pro can be used, but "fast
switching" is not supported on a Windows domains
While Print-Track works on a workgroup network, setting up a domain is highly
recommended for networks larger than a few PCs, because a domain's Active
Directory is well suited for logon authentication, PC netbios identification, and
uniform printing security policies. See our white paper "Controlling and Accounting
for Printing on a Windows Network".
While Print-Track is designed for Windows networks using Windows print drivers, it
will properly control and account for (against Mac and Samba logon) any print jobs
originating from Mac Panther or Tiger clients and utilizing CUPS PostScript 3 print
drivers. In such cases, the Mac clients are not bound to Active Directory but instead
print via Samba using our Mac-Track feature.
Because Print-Track uses TCP/IP communication, it will work between Windows
clients and print servers on a Novell network.
Main Features of Print-Track Plus
• Pauses and resumes local and remote printers
• Pauses print jobs to account for all important print job characteristics,
including document name, originating PC name, logon, destination printer,
paper size, color vs. B/W, duplex (Word docs), number of copies and pages,
job cost, job size, and date and time submitted (or completed)
• Accurately counts Word copies and automatically groups multiple copies of
Excel spreadsheets in parent-child format
• Accurately counts Word pages for "Nup" or "Nup of Nup" printing for most
printers (hp and Lexmark emulation)
• Accounts for and parses print jobs on the local PC, not the application server,
utilizing Print -Track Client
• Allows decimal pricing per print impression to hundredths of a cent, by groups
of printers, for color and B/W