Overview
Pcounter Station runs on a dedicated Windows PC providing controlled, secure release of print jobs. After users send print jobs from other workstations, they can approach the station, optionally authenticate using their name, network password (or both) and select the jobs they wish to send to print. There is support for integration with magnetic stripe and smart card based payment systems for payment at print time or value-transfer to the Pcounter database. Pcounter Station locks down the PC so that users cannot exit, and the Pcounter Station software is the only application which is shown on the computer’s display. End users and third party software companies can integrate their own applications with Pcounter Station via a DLL interface supplied with the software.

Pcounter Station works with print queues hosted on Windows or Novell servers. Pcounter Station in a NetWare environment works with NDS queues, Bindery queues, and NDPS printers. Generally, Pcounter for Windows or Pcounter for NetWare should be running on the print server, in order to automatically pause/hold jobs and to calculate the page counts and cost of print jobs.

Pcounter Station - Printer Configuration

The Pcounter Station configuration screen presents a view of your network showing all Microsoft Windows domains, Active Directory and Novell NetWare servers and  NDS/eDirectory trees with the network devices defined.

Using this function you can browse your network and point to the printers required to be controlled by Pcounter Station.