29 | | Free Software : |
30 | | |
31 | | - Licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. |
32 | | |
33 | | Commercially Supported : |
34 | | |
35 | | - Support Contracts are available from http://www.pykota.com/technical-support/ |
36 | | |
37 | | Operating systems : |
38 | | |
39 | | - Any Unix-like system as print server. |
40 | | |
41 | | - Any operating system as client. |
42 | | |
43 | | Printing systems : |
44 | | |
45 | | - Supports both CUPS and LPRng as the printing system. |
46 | | NB : LPRng is only supported with versions |
47 | | of PyKota <= v1.22HotFix1, but support for LPRng |
48 | | may be reintroduced at a later date. |
49 | | This version DOES NOT support LPRng ! |
50 | | |
51 | | Databases : |
52 | | |
53 | | - Supports PostgreSQL as the database backend. |
54 | | An SQL script to create the database is included. |
55 | | |
56 | | - Supports any LDAP server as the database backend. |
57 | | Complete LDAP schema and sample empty tree are included. |
58 | | Plugging PyKota into your existing LDAP infrastructure |
59 | | is really easy thanks to PyKota's great configurability. |
60 | | |
61 | | - Supports SQLite as the database backend. |
62 | | An SQL script to create the database is included. |
63 | | |
64 | | - Supports MySQL as the database backend. |
65 | | An SQL script to create the database is included. |
66 | | |
67 | | - The print jobs history can be stored in any database |
68 | | of your choice (or in plain text files) if needed. |
69 | | |
70 | | - Master and slave databases are supported : master |
71 | | in read+write mode, slave in readonly mode. |
72 | | Master and slave databases can be of different types ! |
73 | | |
74 | | Printers : |
75 | | |
76 | | - Hardware or Software accounting methods are completely |
77 | | configurable. |
78 | | |
79 | | - Supports any printer which can report its internal |
80 | | page counter. Can ask printers for their internal |
81 | | page counter via SNMP, Netatalk, PJL, PS, or any |
82 | | other way. |
83 | | This is completely configurable. |
84 | | |
85 | | - Supports DSC compliant and binary PostScript, PDF, PCL5 (up to), |
86 | | PCLXL (aka PCL6), ESC/P2, DVI, TIFF, OpenDocument (ISO/IEC DIS 26300), |
87 | | Zenographics ZjStream, and Samsung QPDL (aka SPL2) natively through |
88 | | the direct use of pkpgcounter's code for software accounting methods. |
89 | | More formats to come. |
90 | | |
91 | | - Supports any other Page Description Language for which you |
92 | | have a parser which can be scripted. |
93 | | |
94 | | Quota systems : |
95 | | |
96 | | - Supports printers and printers groups quotas. |
97 | | |
98 | | - Supports users and users groups quotas. |
99 | | |
100 | | - Supports page quotas. |
101 | | Page quotas can be set differently on a per printer |
102 | | and per user/group basis. |
103 | | |
104 | | - Supports account balance quotas in any currency. |
105 | | Account balance quotas can be set on a per user |
106 | | basis. The account balance is shared amongst |
107 | | all printers. The history of payments (positive |
108 | | or negative credits to an user account) is kept. |
109 | | |
110 | | - Supports high granularity periodic print quotas : down |
111 | | to one minute intervals if needed. |
112 | | |
113 | | - Page quotas and account balance can be set/reset |
114 | | independantly. |
115 | | |
116 | | - Page quotas can be set on a per user or per group basis |
117 | | for a particular printer. |
118 | | |
119 | | - Price per page and per job can be set differently |
120 | | on any printer. |
121 | | |
122 | | - Price depending on ink/toner usage is supported |
123 | | with many printer drivers. |
124 | | |
125 | | - Low level of page quota or account balance are |
126 | | configurable. |
127 | | |
128 | | - Both soft and hard limit with configurable grace delay |
129 | | can be set for page quota. |
130 | | |
131 | | - Both soft and hard limits can be increased or decreased at will. |
132 | | |
133 | | - Possibility to disable quota enforcement for any user |
134 | | or group, while still keeping page accounting. |
135 | | |
136 | | - Each user can have an overcharging (or undercharging) factor, |
137 | | which is applied whenever PyKota computes the cost of a |
138 | | print job. |
139 | | |
140 | | - Specific pages and credits counters can be defined per billing code, |
141 | | and can be reset independantly of the printing history. |
142 | | |
143 | | - Supports a passthrough mode for printers, which doesn't modify |
144 | | users quota when they print. |
145 | | |
146 | | - Supports a maximum number of pages per job, configurable for each |
147 | | printer. |
148 | | |
149 | | - Each user can be completely forbidden to print, independantly from |
150 | | other users. |
151 | | |
152 | | - A transparent printing mode is supported for users, in which |
153 | | their quota is not modified when they print. |
154 | | |
155 | | Administration : |
156 | | |
157 | | - Almost turn-key solution, with the help of the pkturnkey command |
158 | | line tool for database initialization and initial configuration. |
159 | | |
160 | | - Powerful delegation of administrative priviledges. |
161 | | |
162 | | - Powerful administration tools can be used to |
163 | | automate setting or resetting of quotas or |
164 | | account balances at specific intervals. |
165 | | |
166 | | - Administration tools can modify several users, |
167 | | groups, or printers at once with the use of |
168 | | powerful wildcard characters. |
169 | | |
170 | | - Account balances can be set, incremented, or |
171 | | decremented. History of payments is kept. |
172 | | |
173 | | - Number of pages used can be set, incremented, or |
174 | | decremented. |
175 | | |
176 | | - Both printers and users can be automatically added on |
177 | | first print in a completely configurable way. |
178 | | |
179 | | - Quota report generator available either from the |
180 | | command line or in any web browser. |
181 | | The web-based quota report generator can be |
182 | | user/password protected. |
183 | | |
184 | | - Print quote generator can tell users how much |
185 | | a print job will cost them in advance. |
186 | | |
187 | | - PDF invoice generator to charge back users. |
188 | | |
189 | | - Policy with regard to unregistered users can |
190 | | be configured for each printer to either deny |
191 | | printing, allow printing, or delegate the |
192 | | decision to any external tool. |
193 | | |
194 | | - Warning and error messages can be automatically |
195 | | sent via email or via any other mean to the administrator, |
196 | | the user, both, or none. |
197 | | |
198 | | - Warning and error messages' content is completely |
199 | | configurable. |
200 | | |
201 | | - Configuration can be changed without needing to |
202 | | restart the printing system. |
203 | | |
204 | | - Complete print job history is kept. This can be |
205 | | disabled if needed. |
206 | | |
207 | | - Automated low quota or balance remainder can be |
208 | | scheduled regularly or launched manually. |
209 | | |
210 | | - Starting and Ending personalized dynamic banners can be |
211 | | generated on the fly, and accounted for or not, depending |
212 | | on some configuration settings. |
213 | | Banners can still be enabled even if the print job is denied. |
214 | | NB : Banners are a CUPS only feature for now. |
215 | | |
216 | | - Duplicate print jobs can be forbidden automatically. The decision |
217 | | can be left to any script to decide this on a per job basis. |
218 | | |
219 | | - Username and billing code can be overwritten at printing time, |
220 | | to allow people to login as guest users and print as authenticated |
221 | | users, for example. |
222 | | |
223 | | - The pknotify command can now interact with remote users who run |
224 | | the PyKotIcon application which is distributed separately. |
225 | | |
226 | | - Powerful data dumper to export datas to other |
227 | | software (spreadsheets for example). Actually |
228 | | supported formats are : |
229 | | |
230 | | - Comma separated values ; |
231 | | |
232 | | - Semicolon separated values ; |
233 | | |
234 | | - Tab separated values ; |
235 | | |
236 | | - XML. |
237 | | |
238 | | - CUPS' page_log format, to easily interface in |
239 | | real time with third party apps like phpPrintAnalyzer |
240 | | and similar tools. |
241 | | |
242 | | User Interface : |
243 | | |
244 | | - All the command line tools accept the -h | --help |
245 | | command line option which prints all the available |
246 | | options and show usage examples. |
247 | | |
248 | | - Completely internationalized. Actually supports at least partially |
249 | | English, French, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian, Swedish, |
250 | | Thai, Greek, German, Italian, Norwegian (Bokm�, Turkish |
251 | | and traditional Chinese languages. |
252 | | More to come. |
253 | | |
254 | | - Web enabled print quota monitor, data dumper, and quote |
255 | | generator. |
256 | | |
257 | | - An On Screen Display X-Window print quota monitor is included. |
258 | | |
259 | | - An email gateway to allow users to retrieve their print quota |
260 | | information by sending an email message to a dedicated address |
261 | | is included. |
262 | | |
263 | | - Third party web based management tools are available. |
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