Equitrac Express provides colleges, universities, K-12 schools and their libraries with protection against the costs and waste of uncontrolled printing.

ABOUT EQUITRAC EXPRESSM

• 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

MAJOR APPLICATIONS

• Cost reduction
• Printing device management and utilization
• Environmental impact

BENEFITS

• Institutes accountability for every page printed
• Eliminates unauthorized, excessive or wasteful printing
• Cost savings by directing output to the most efficient devices
• Generates revenue from printing with allocation of costs back to individuals, departments or grants
• Security for confidential documents
• Simplified administration improves service levels and reduces help desk calls
• Environmental benefits through the reduction of resources consumed

USING EQUITRAC EXPRESS

• Set student print quotes, determine who may print, how many pages and to which devices
• User's ID is required to print and every page is tracked holding user to their quota
• Automated user PIN management
• Print Assistant pop-up window lets users see cost, payment method and number of pages
• 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
• Secure Document Release holds confidential print jobs in a secure queue until released for print by the document owner
• Send To printing lets users share documents by sending the ability to print to a distribution list (with or without charge)
• 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
• Equitrac's Device Monitoring Engine provides a single console to track devices' status including paper, toner levels, or errors
• Administrators can re-route jobs based on device status such as paper out, offline, jam, etc.
• Summary, detailed and total activity reports are available and data can be exported for analysis

IMPLEMENTING THIS SOLUTION

• Integrates with Print & Copy Control (PCC) and hardware control terminals
• Works with printers, copiers and multifunction products from Ricoh and other manufacturers
• Supports cash, smart or magnetic stripe stored-value cards, campus card systems or network printing accounts
• Integrates with existing networks and standards: Windows®, Novell® NetWare®, UNIX® and Citrix®
• Offline terminal data collection capability (track and recover costs where there is no network connection)
• Page counter terminal option for copy control and secure printing
• Scales from small single-server sites up to multi-campus district-wide networks with thousands of devices and users

COMPLEMENTARY PRODUCTS

• Print & Copy Control