PaperCut's licensing policy is well established and has changed little in over 10 years. It was set initially with the aim of ensuring that the licensing model "does not get in your way or dictate your technology choices as an administrator". Licensing is based on the number of users in the database/organization and hence is proportional to the organization's IT budget.

Traditionally server based applications have been licensed on a per-server basis, however this model encourages organizations to overload servers, centralize towards single points of failure, and discourages best practice such as setting up duplicate testing and production servers/VMs, etc.

PaperCut is supplied as a true enterprise-wide flexible license.

Benefits:

• Unlimited servers
• Implement clustering at no extra cost
• Upsize to an external database at any time
• Ability to monitor locally attached printers at no extra cost
• No limits on the number of workstations, printers or clients

PaperCut is expandable:

PaperCut License is flexible, will accommodate your technology and architectures choices, and will grow with your IT infrastructure.

PaperCut is also a technically focused company and most of the resources are allocated to software development rather than marketing, relying on the quality of the application to sell the software. This has worked very well and most of the users that implemented PaperCut 10 years ago still run and recommend the software today!

Fair Use

PaperCut is packed full of customization options as the ability to customize the web interface or develop 3rd party extensions. We have fully documented and transparent APIs. We do charge for services such as tailoring of the end-user web interface, but also equally make the same features available to you so you can opt to undertake this work yourself at no additional cost.

Fair Development

PaperCut NG is a mature and stable print control application, but remains under active development to ensure modern and functional features are up to date. The release history is testament to the speed at which new features are added.

PaperCut’s Development is prioritized based on customers' requests. The more requests for a feature the higher it's pushed up the list. Transparent in the way development is approached is another great key in PaperCut, the code source is available to all customers - nothing proves the quality of an application more than the code underneath!

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