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What is Rules Based Printing?

Whether you're a small business or a large enterprise, you have a need to track and control your print. Taking a laissez faire attitude toward the print in your organization is a recipe for out of control costs and even data breaches. One of the best tools you can employ is rules based printing. Rules based printing is a software solution that helps organizations cut costs, meet industry standards and secure information by way of encouraging, suggesting or enforcing print rules to end users. For a light touch, suggesting rules can help shape user behavior; a pop up stating "If you printed this document to the central copier instead of the desktop printer, you would save the company $0.50" for instance. Enforcing rules, on the other hand, completely eliminates the user's choice. Under the same circumstances, the user would be forced to print to the central copier. Some rules include: Suggesting or enforcing printing to a particular device Suggesting or enforcing printing in black ...

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