[Technical] Printing management software-policies

Tue Sep 5 15:04:49 EST 2006

You can measure traffic in as used by each user. You measure only what
comes in over the internet connection. Much of the software only
measures port 80 (or whatever it is set to) not all traffic on other
ports

When students use credit up then papercut removes them from the internet
users group so then they can only access intranet and school email

Gaia does much the same but when I saw it last it only updated
overnight... it may have improved now.

Papercut uses a single pool of money fro printing and internet and so
when they use print credit up they lose internet as well - very handy as
pressure fro them to control their printing and to make sure they always
have some credit.

It is also interesting to see students migrate from Hotmail to the
school email as they begin to see how much internet credit the constant
refreshes use..!!!!

In  my last school we had the cost down to 4.5c per megabyte including
gst. 

Andrew Shortell

Braemar College

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Charge 10c Mb download.  $6 combined notional printing and internet
credit per semester.  After this students pay $5 lots to top up their
account.  All intranet access is free.  Teachers are encouraged o
download material rather than send students "out to get it" all the
time.  About 20% of students pay extra.  Probably drop the charge as Mb
costs decrease and MB download increases with VicSmart....... 

How extra downloads make us "Smart" is anyone's guess ??  Didn't seem to
work for more TV hours....  

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Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the feedback, am curious as to how you charged the students
for Internet usage - do these software packages measure downloads? How
much do you charge? Do you invoice he students? Block them from using
the internet if they haven't paid?

Shane

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Subject: RE: [Technical] Printing management software-policies

Hi Shane

I have used Gaia and papercut for both printing and internet charging.

Both were fine for printing, both add print value by using vouchers
purchased from business manager/ bursar and printed out by IT staff

Papercut was superior for internet charging as it updated every 10
minutes, The older version of GAIA only updated once per day, I do not
have recent experience with the latest version of GAIA and internet
charging.

Just be careful of the share where the data is held as the encryption
key for gaia is, by default, stored in the data folder...... as students
here found out!

Andrew Shortell

Braemar College

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Subject: [Technical] Printing management software-policies

Hi All,

I would appreciate some feedback on what other schools are using to
manage there printing costs with students - Software and or policies.
How effective is it and how do you manage student payment.

Thanks

Shane Mansfield

IT Coordinator

The King David School

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