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PaperCut Version 10.3 released
May 17th
How about this to brighten up your Monday, the talented PaperCut developers have been hard at work since releasing 10.2 in March and now we have PaperCut version 10.3 to play with.
You will find a lot of new features / improvements of existing features / bug fixes / improved printer support and a host of changes to the copier integration options to make some IT staff very happy.
Advanced print scripting:
- New recipe for copyright sampling. This script demonstrates the use of advanced techniques such as sampling, using functions and multi-step user interaction.
- New recipe to confirm printing of colour emails.
- New recipe for redirecting a job with confirmation.
- New advanced recipe to require that users enter an approval code before printing (e.g. printing must be approved by a teacher).
- New snippets for checking printer group and user group membership.
- Added an option to speed up the process of displaying a sequence of multiple prompts to a user.
Scheduled reports may now be edited, rather than requiring they be re-created.
Fixed problem with the top-up card wizard that could cause British Pound signs to display incorrectly in the generated cards. This fix requires re-installing the card wizard.
Added support for new RISO drivers such as the RISO ComColor 9050.
Added a new embedded/onboard copy, fax and scan tracking solution for HP devices via the Chai SOE DSE platform. For more information and supported devices see the HP MFD Integration tour page.
Added a new embedded/onboard copy, fax and scan tracking solution for Toshiba devices. For more information and supported devices see the Toshiba MFD Integration tour page.
Ricoh and Sharp embedded users can now associate cards with their login at the device (“card self-association”).
The full release notes and download links are available on the download page for each product:
PaperCut MF
PaperCut NG
PaperCut ChargeBack
Happy upgrading!
Improved Accessibility of Access Module
Jan 19th
Prior to its launch, Ricoh submitted the m3i Access Module to the Human Systems Engineering Branch (HSEB) of Georgia Tech to see how it would fare against their Section 508 tests. The software itself achieved a Fully Supports compliant status itself. When added to Ricoh MFDs, it improved the compliant status of Ricoh to Supports with Exceptions. However, HSEB did suggest some areas where it could be made more compatible with certain of the assistive technologies they were using in their testing and we have addressed some of these in the latest version.
The change which will probably have the most effect going forward is the implementation of ARIA mark-up which will improve compatibility with text-to-speech applications such as Jaws. Other minor enhancements have been made in respect of compatibility with Magic Screen Magnifier, Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Windows High Contast Mode. Greater detail can be found on the developer blog here.
Ricoh Supports Section 508 Regulations with Accessibility Module
Jan 6th
The nice people at officeproductnews wrote an article about our m3i project.
Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment, today announced the availability of Select Technology’s m3i Access Module to the Ricoh channel through the Ricoh Independent Solutions Vendor Program (RiSVP). Exclusively available to Ricoh, the m3i Access Module is an innovative user interface that allows users to control Ricoh multifunctional products (MFPs) remotely in circumstances when using the MFP’s own touchscreen is either not convenient or not possible. While intended to improve accessibility for all users, the interface has been developed to be of special benefit to people in wheelchairs or those with visual impairments. No dedicated hardware is required, just a browser and a network connection, and no software installation is required on external devices.
Follow the jump for the full article - Read More.
Be sure to check out m3interconnect.com for everything m3i and don’t forget to have a look at the official Ricoh page on m3i as well.
PaperCut & Paxton Access Ltd
Oct 27th
A few weeks ago one of our PaperCut reseller buddies came to us with a problem and (insert sound of own trumpet being blown) we delivered a solution.
Problem?
A few of the schools this reseller provides services to wished to monitor prints and copies on Ricoh machines. They wanted staff and students to be issued with wireless contact cards and for users to walk up to the copiers “swipe” the card and be presented with two options: 1) release any prints sent to the device by the user; 2) start photocopying and have everything be charged to a central store.
PaperCut MF and Ricoh Embedded were chosen and everything should have worked fine apart from one small issue. The cards they had issued staff/students with were “Paxton cards” from the Net2 Access system.
Answer?
The first task was to find a reader that could read something unique off each card.
Second task was to get this mystery reader working with a photocopier (something of a black art)
I will skip all the boring bits but after a few weeks of hard work, tweaking, cursing and generally finding the rest of the world useless we now have a system in place for this to work perfectly. At the same time we learned a lot about card readers on the Ricoh platform and we are fairly confident we can now get any card reader working.
So if you are using Paxton HiTag2 class cards and want to start using PaperCut MF give us a call and we will make your day.
Clever stuff, huh?
PaperCut MF 9.5 (Build 8168)
Jun 25th
New features:
•Ricoh ESA: improved version for newer models (models supported ESA SDK v4) with many additional features such as “zero stop” (stop jobs as soon as user runs out of balance), support for card readers and improved copy count detection.
•New manager mode pop-up designed to allow authorized users to perform printing as other users and allocate to accounts. It also allows various cost adjustments to be applied to jobs. A common use for the manager mode popup would be in school/college print rooms where staff print on behalf of other users.
•Allow self-registration of internal users using swipe cards in the pay station / release station.
•Add support for CyberSource payment services in the payment gateway module.
•New reports showing a breakdown of copying vs printing: Shared account print/copy breakdown – summary, Group print/copy breakdown – summary
•Added a new report Shared account security access that lists the shared accounts that each user may access.
•New options for release stations to better support small, high resolution screens and touch screens: option to display links as buttons, option to scale the size of all elements.
•Added more ad-hoc report filters to several reports.
•Added the ability to remove all user balance information (balance history graph, transaction history) from the user web pages. This may be useful in corporate environments where the focus is on account/department tracking.
•Added new filters to the Jobs Pending Release page in the user web interface: document name, workstation name.
•New filter for print log tables: minimum and/or maximum pages.
M3i
Feb 23rd
Innovative Product Of The Year
Sep 28th
MyUI named “Innovative Product Of The Year” at the Ricoh Solutions Developer Conference.
(Amelia Island Plantation September 18 – 20) Select Technology received the Innovative Product Of The Year award at the Ricoh Solutions Developer Conference 2007 in Florida.
Ricoh Solutions Developer Conference
Check out the press release after the jump. Awards Honor Ricoh Partners for Performance Excellence in 2007
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