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How To Upgrade Papercut On A Windows Server

In this short tutorial I will show you how to upgrade Papercut on your windows server to the latest version. Papercut bring out new versions on a regular basis as they add new features and it is quite straight forward to upgrade as it has been designed so you can load the new version over the top of the old one.

The first step is to log in to your Papercut server as an Administrator and perform a backup. The backup facility is found under the options tab.

Once you have backed up Papercut then log out and go to services under administration settings. The next step is to stop the Papercut application server and to stop the Papercut print provider services. It is important to complete this step as you can destroy your database if you don’t.

Once you have stopped the service you can run the installer and follow the prompts to overwrite your Papercut installation.

That’s it once it has finished installing it will restart Papercut and you can login and go to the about tab and check your Papercut Version.

For more information on Papercut then please call Elmdale Maintenance on 01189821444

Papercut Have Introduced a new feature in 13.0 were you can archive and view a users print activity.

This allows approved Administrators to view a users prints jobs interactively in your browser from within Papercut. This feature is totally customisable in the fact that you can turn it off for certain user or printers that might be printing sensitive documents such as HR departments, FD’s etc.

They state that this feature is ideal for a variety of scenarios including information security, audit processes and validating refund requests. Many organisations have data retention and distribution policies, whether they be requirements to archive e-mail or restrictions on USB storage devices and cloud services. Printing has traditionally presented an auditing difficulty, and PaperCut’s Print Archiving adds to the auditing tool belt.

For more information on Papercut and it’s features them please contact our sales department on 0118 982 1444 to arrange a demonstration