Using PaperCut's LPD Service to Archive All Print Jobs

The Print Archiving option available within PaperCut NG & MF empowers approved administrators to browse and review the content of print activity within their environment. Alongside the powerful reporting features built into PaperCut NG/MF, this gives administrators a whole host of additional benefits including the ability to view past print jobs directly from the PaperCut NG/MF administrator web interface.

However, did you know that only the jobs that are actually printed out are archived?

That’s where our the PaperCut NG/MF LPD service comes in. Usually used to enable tracking of print jobs from disparate systems such as mainframes and AS 400s, the PaperCut NG/MF LPD service can also offer the ability to archive all print jobs as they arrive at the print server, making sure that PaperCut administrators can get a view of everything printed by their users, including jobs that are deleted at the device or are removed after reaching the system job expiry time.

If you want to find out more about LPD and LPR, check out our KB here.