Equitrac Express®
Equitrac Express provides colleges, universities, K-12 schools and their libraries with protection against the costs and waste of uncontrolled printing.
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| ABOUT EQUITRAC EXPRESS |
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Equitrac Express software lets you track, analyze, or charge for every page output by any student, faculty member, staffer or guest on any desktop printer, networked multifunction product or walk-up copier |
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| BENEFITS |
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Cost savings by directing output to the most efficient devices |
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Eliminates unauthorized, excessive or wasteful printing |
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Environmental benefits through the reduction of resources consumed |
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Generates revenue from printing with allocation of costs back to individuals, departments or grants |
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Institutes accountability for every page printed |
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Security for confidential documents |
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Simplified administration improves service levels and reduces help desk calls |
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| COMPLEMENTARY PRODUCTS |
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Print & Copy Control |
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| IMPLEMENTING THIS SOLUTION |
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Integrates with existing networks and standards: Windows®, Novell® NetWare®, UNIX® and Citrix® |
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Integrates with Print & Copy Control (PCC) and hardware control terminals |
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Offline terminal data collection capability (track and recover costs where there is no network connection) |
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Page counter terminal option for copy control and secure printing |
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Scales from small single-server sites up to multi-campus district-wide networks with thousands of devices and users |
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Supports cash, smart or magnetic stripe stored-value cards, campus card systems or network printing accounts |
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Works with printers, copiers and multifunction products from Ricoh and other manufacturers |
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| MAJOR APPLICATIONS |
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Cost reduction |
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Environmental impact |
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Printing device management and utilization |
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| USING EQUITRAC EXPRESS |
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Administrators can re-route jobs based on device status such as paper out, offline, jam, etc. |
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Automated user PIN management |
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Equitrac's Device Monitoring Engine provides a single console to track devices' status including paper, toner levels, or errors |
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Follow-You Printing® lets you release print jobs at the most convenient device - anywhere on campus - so you can print where you are and avoid waiting for a device to free up |
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Print Assistant pop-up window lets users see cost, payment method and number of pages |
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Secure Document Release holds confidential print jobs in a secure queue until released for print by the document owner |
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Send To printing lets users share documents by sending the ability to print to a distribution list (with or without charge) |
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Set student print quotes, determine who may print, how many pages and to which devices |
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Summary, detailed and total activity reports are available and data can be exported for analysis |
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Track costs of documents depending on their attributes (i.e. color, duplex, stitching, etc.) and create different charging schedules for faculty, staff, students or walk-up patrons |
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User's ID is required to print and every page is tracked holding user to their quota |
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