TrueCafe. Friendly Internet Cafe Software. Documentation. Printer Watcher

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Printer Watcher

Printer Watcher automatically charges customers for printing on any printer in your cyber cafe. You can charge black-and-white and colour printing using different rates.

Install

Install Printer Watcher on a computer with a printer connected:

Start Printer Watcher Config application from TrueCafe Start Menu program group, enter TrueCafe server IP address and start service if it is stopped:

Configure

1. Check whether the server receives print job information when you print on a printer that is being monitored by Printer Watcher ("Pricing" menu, "Print Jobs" button).

Print jobs are highlighted depending on the job state: not charged jobs background is painted in grey, cancelled jobs font - in red.

2. Check whether the value in the "Computer" column on the "Print Jobs" fits the ip address or name or "computer name" of any of your terminals.

3. Connect a printer to a pricing ("Pricing" menu):

Create a new record, select a printer from the drop-down list and choose the colour-independent pricing or distinct pricings for both monochrome and colour printing.

Charge

When a customer prints on a printer that is being monitored by Printer Watcher, he/she is automatically charged for printing:

Printing confirmation

When this option is enabled, TrueCafe Client displayes the pages/charge information dialog when a customer prints a document. A customer can then accept or decline the printing.

Print prevention

Stop printing on any printer in your cyber cafe when not enough money left on a customer's balance.

When a customer sends a document to a printer, TrueCafe calculates document pages/copies and how much we should charge him for this document. Unless he has enough money left on his balance, the printing is stopped and a warning message is displayed on a customer's terminal.

When a customer prints on a printer from a terminal, print prevention will be enabled if both the printer and the terminal have "enable print prevention" option turned on.

You can select on which printers and which terminals you want to enable this feature on. For example, you may decide to avoid monitoring of your receipt printer or any printing which is sent from administrative computer.