The Sandy Beach Cafe is a typical Internet cafe offering Internet access, faxing, printing and other services. This business has 50 computers and two printers. A black & white laser printer called “Black and White Printer” and a high-end color inkjet system named as “Color Printer”. They want to implement a pay-per-print system that meets the following process and requirements:
Requirements
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The customer prints the job to the appropriate printer.
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At the front desk, the customer pays a staff member for the print job.
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The staff member releases the job for printing.
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The customer collects the print job.
Implementation
PaperCut NG/MF’s hold/release queues are ideally suited to the Internet cafe scenario. More information on the hold/release queues is available at Secure print release . PaperCut NG/MF provides both an application interface for Release Station managers (i.e. desk staff) as well as a convenient web browser-based interface. To summarize a typical implementation:
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The PaperCut NG/MF server software is installed on the system hosting the printers. An existing server or desktop system will suffice.
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Workstations are configured to print to the printers shared on the system set up in step 1.
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In the Admin web interface, the printers should have the manager only release option selected.
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Desk staff can view and control pending print jobs, their cost, and other details via the web based release interface accessible at the URL:
http://server_name:9191/release
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