O&K Print Watch 4.6.0.2562 offers you a full featured server side print manager with the ability to control print jobs, paper usage and collect statistics from the print servers. With O&K Print Watch you can define printing quotas for your users that depend on a number of different printing limits. O&K Print Watch creates a wide array of reports, which are available for viewing even from a web browser. These features give users full control over any printer in a home or corporate network. 

Now you can specify a printing “budget” by setting limits on the number of pages that can be printed or the total cost of a printed document. Let’s say, for example, your employees are printing too many images on an expensive color laser printer. You can set up a printing quota to limit printing based on the number of pages in a document for this printer.

Or, you can specify keywords and no document with these keywords in its name will ever be printed. If you would like to know what was in the document named “Doc1.doc”, you can select the option that saves a print job as an image and open an image of a printed document in a built-in image viewer. 

Major Features:

1. Exact determination of number of the printed pages and copies, at printing on the printer from stations witn any operation systems at usage of following printer command language: PCL(version 3, 4, 5, 5E, 5C, 6 (XL)), POSTSCRIPT®(level 2 and 3),ESC/PAGE, ESC/P(with Remote Mode Commands), ESC/P2®, 9-Pin ESC/P®, FX®, Zj-Stream, CPCA, BJL Commands, BJ Raster Image Commands.
2. Exact determination printed copies of a document.
3. Print server remote control.
4. Set printing quotas and limit printing for any object.
5. Limit document printing by pages or cost.
6. Limit document printing with restricted keywords in the name.
7. Viewing images of printed jobs.
8. Web interface for reports viewing.
9. Forbid and pause printing from a user or user groups.
10. Store print jobs data in Microsoft® SQL Server or Oracle and possibility of creation your own report.
11. The convenient gear of formation and review of the reports.
12. Print charging system allowing different costs for each printer.
13. Capability of flexible deleting of the stored information about the printed jobs.
14. Administration of the print queue.
15. Support for Active Directory users/groups.
16. Using monitor of printing in Windows Service.
17. Export reports to HTML format and XML.
18. Unicode support.
19. Reports e-mailing.
20. Track printing by projects or accounts. (Required Authentication Client)
21. Restrict printer access by password or PIN-code. (Required Authentication Client)

Requirements:

• Print server requirements
• • Operating system
  • • Windows 7/ Server 2008 / Server 2003 / 2000 / Vista / XP / 2000 (server, advanced server, enterprise edition, 64-bit edition, ultimate, workstation, professional)
  • RAM
  • • 384 MB minimum, 512 MB or more recommended.
  • CPU
  • • 512 MHz and higher
  • HDD
  • • 100 MB and more, additional space for logs and printed document images.
  • Printer
  • • Any printer supporting the following drivers: PCL (version 3, 4, 5, 5E, 5C, 6(XL), HP-GL/2, POSTSCRIPT (level 2 and 3), ESC/Page, ESC/P(with Remote Mode Commands), ESC/P2, 9-Pin ESC/P, FX, Zj-Stream, CPCA, BJL, ZIMF.
  • Database
  • • MS SQL Server 2005 Express (included in the O&K Print Watch distribution package).
    • If there are more than 20 printers on one print server, it is recommended to use MS SQL Server 2005 and higher or Oracle 9.x and higher.
• Control Program requirements (in case it is installed separately)
• • Operating system
  • • Windows 7/ Server 2008 / Server 2003 / 2000 / Vista / XP / 2000
    • (server, advanced server, enterprise edition, 64-bit edition, ultimate, workstation, professional)
  • RAM
  • • 128 MB minimum, 512 MB or more recommended.
  • CPU
  • • 512 MHz and higher
  • HDD
  • • 20 MB.