Papercut or Print manager plus?

[win]

Need a new printing solution as ours is becoming dated. Apart from regular printing requirements/restrictions we're also looking for:

 

Print from BYOD (with print limits)

Print from ipads/imacs (with print limits)

Ability to charge students real money

 

Which of these 2 do you recommend?

[zag]

We use Papercut to print from BYOD devices.

 

Its a bit lame though and nobody really uses the functionality.

[win]

PMP has a web based solution, not sure about papercut. I think papercut is more popular so i'm thinking about taking that route but wondered what others prefer.

[Sylv3r]

We are probably going to go with Equitrac. Slightly more expensive but from the demo i've seen it looks good.

[plexer]

PMP was clunky at best.

 

Ben

[elsiegee40]

We have PMP. I can't say that it fills me with joy. It does the job, but there has to be something better

[MatthewL]

PaperCut, fills all the boxes you want and is a solid product.

[robjduk]

PMP here and as mentioned above, it certainly does the job however it really could use a facelift. I know the UI is not everything but it has an almost XP feel to it and has not evolved as a product in my opinion. It does update a lot to support new formats and is not hard to use and manage but just feels outdated. Hard to put my finger on it.

[MatthewL]

If you want to look at PaperCut you can check the demo site out here.

[glen_j]

we've used both. used to have PMP now moved over to Papercut and find it much more useable.

[synaesthesia]

Papercut here, for BYOD kit we just install the java client for them, doesn't get in the way of printing at home etc.

[SteveB_NI]

We actually use both! Paper cut has been introduced this year on our managed service (teaching staff) network and I have PMP on our own internal network.

 

I've been thinking for a while about getting Papercut throughout.

 

Those of you who have PMP - do you pay the yearly maintenance fee? That's another thing I'm questioning is it worthwhile paying.

[win]

We don't pay the maintenance fee but now we need an upgrade to use the BYOD features. Not sure if i should pay for the same product + BYOD or just install a new system i.e. papercut.