PaperCut 16.2 – released August 2016
A quick overview guide to 16.2. For more detail see Release Notes
Looking for a quick and easy print solution for mobile and BYOD without the overhead of installing print drivers and user authentication? Web Print a popular feature in PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF gets users printing from their devices using a standard web browser.
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Tommy Carron, Technology Management at The University of Melbourne describes how more than 47,000 students access printing across their 7 campuses. “In the past, students would need to use a University lab computer to print. With the rise of BYOD and mobile devices, PaperCut’s Web Print allows driverless printing for students who simply upload their documents.” 
Pictured, (left) Peter Fitzgerald, PaperCut Support Melbourne showing Tommy Caron (right), Tech Team Lead Melbourne University a preview of Web Print scaling.
Large education institutions like The University of Melbourne can print hundreds of thousands of pages daily during peak periods. PaperCut 16.2 now includes scaling to minimize bottlenecks and user wait times.
To assist throughput, you can now deploy multiple PaperCut Web Print servers, allowing many jobs to be processed simultaneously, speeding up output. Scaling up with multiple servers also builds redundancy into PaperCut Web Print, so there is no longer a single point of failure.
“Anything that improves the end user experience and makes things quicker, is a huge benefit, “ said Tommy. “Introducing speed and redundancy is always welcomed in IT.”
SysAdmins can now assign roles to print servers. For example, if you have three print servers, one can process Office docs and the other two can process PDFs and images; you can configure the servers to load balance on the most printed file types. If images and PDFs are more regularly printed, you may save on the number of Office licenses needed.
For more on Web Print scaling, visit the Web Print Tour.
