PaperCut Pocket

Yes. We're looking for people to use this in production environments at this stage. It has a beta tag, but this also means you will have special care and attention. A lot of this system is based on more mature technologies such as PaperCut MF Mobility Print and the technology behind PaperCut Views. Having said that, this is beta software (and we hope you help us hunt down those bugs and round out the feature set). We've added a bug or two in there just to make sure you're paying attention.

During the beta, we are not limiting any features or having any form of an enforced time limit.

It will be a little indeterminate... Hurry up and sign up. Ideally, we'd like to see it last for 3 months. Oh, by the way, anyone who helps us out during the percolator phase will receive 6 months of access free of charge after we start charging.

Please reach out to us! There is an In-App feedback form that lets you easily provide your feedback. We'll be in contact quickly as we'd love to chat more about how you use the product.

PaperCut Pocket is the first release of our new platform and is specifically targeted to bring print management to small to medium organizations of up to approximately 250 users. More products/tiers will be released with richer feature sets targeting larger customer bases later this year.

It's free during beta, but... We've come up with our initial pricing and have shared this with a number of customers and partners. We'll be sharing the price over the next few months, so reach out if you have some thoughts.

When we embarked on this project our primary requirement was security and this thinking has influenced the infrastructure and feature set all the way through. We'll be releasing a White Paper on this really soon. To give you a teaser, we've leveraged some of the latest ideas out of IoT and edge computing to make sure your print spool file data never leaves your site. We won't give away all the detailed spoilers yet about magic like multi-key encryption and defense through depth architecture.

Our number one objective of hosting is reliability, and our initial implementation is multi-region by default. This means it is hosted in data centers across multiples regions, so if one data center goes down the system can remain available. However, your spool files stay in your region, in fact even on premise. This is similar to many other cloud services such a Google Workspace (GSuite), Dropbox, etc. Like PaperCut's other cloud products, on our roadmap, we plan to introduce an option to lock hosting into particular geographic regions.

Yes, there is a printer discovery tool to discover your local printers. We'll guide you through this process when you sign in for the first time. End users will need to download and install an app to set up printing on their devices (computer and mobile).

We support users printing on Mac, Windows, iOS, Android and Chrome OS

Yes, you can run this in parallel. In fact, this is what we do in our office for the last 6 months in preparation for this launch.

1 - This is a fully hosted solution. 2 - secure print release is implemented with end users releasing using their mobile phone. 3 - We specifically selected the features from MF/NG most commonly used by SMBs.

PaperCut Pocket has a set of real print management features which includes: secure print release by using the PaperCut Pocket mobile phone app; access control rules for who can access which printers and when; rules for Black & White or Duplex printing; and mobile pop-up messages to reduce waste by reminding people to print double sided or Black & White. If you are looking just for print enablement and printing over the internet our free Google Cloud Print alternative is a suitable solution for you, check out PaperCut Mobility Print.

During the percolator phase, this is a requirement as this is a key workflow that we want to build and validate. We'll support other printing methods in the future.

One of PaperCut's strengths in the last 20 years has been our support of every printed and operating system combination. We've stayed true to this vision in this project. PaperCut Pocket is designed to work with every printer.

Please reach out to us! There is an In-App feedback form that lets you easily provide your feedback. We'll be in contact quickly as we'd love to chat more about how you use the product.