Feature	NG	ChargeBack	MF
Cross-platform Runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, Novell and mixed environments.
Directory integration Windows Active Directory, LDAP, eDirectory, Apple Open Directory, Standard POSIX (PAM, NIS/Yellow Pages), Samba, etc.
External database support Supports Microsoft SQL Server (32 and 64-bit, and Server Express), Oracle, PostgreSQL and MySQL out-of-the-box on all platforms.
Clustering Clustering is supported under Windows (either Microsoft Cluster Server or Veritas Cluster Server) and Linux (such as via Linux-HA) at all levels of the application
Scalability to 350,000 users - via server clustering
International Translated into 19 languages, supports your currency and number conventions.
Visual Customization Enough options to suit and integrate into almost any environment
Differential print charging and control Full differential charging models taking into account standard sizes, size category, area, color/grayscale or duplex mode.
Automated quota allocation system Quotas may be easily allocated on a daily, weekly or monthly basis, or on custom dates like the start of a term or semester.
Automatic new user management PaperCut offers the option of having new users automatically assigned initial settings such as starting credit, privilege level, and other settings based on their group membership
Client Tool Show users their balance, send notifications, confirm printing or charge to shared accounts.
Professional Client Billing Show users their balance, send notifications, confirm printing or charge to shared accounts.	optional		optional
Shared Accounts Charge printing to accounts that can be shared by multiple users.
Recharging Balance Using PaperCut top-up / pre-paid cards to recharge user balances.
Advanced Scripting Define your own features with advanced printer scripts.
Web Print A driver-less printing solution for laptops and wireless devices.
Watermarking Apply text to the bottom of each page.
Find Me Printing Documents follow users to their printer of choice.
Print Release Stations Ensure that users are present when their document prints.
Print job filtering and restrictions PaperCut offers advanced filter options to provide network administrators with the ability to filter or restrict print jobs using a set of rules.
Printer Load Balancing Printer load balancing means distributing the printing load between two or more printers. While this can be implemented quite effectively by relying on users to pick a printer that is free, thereby distributing the load, the term generally refers to automatically managed load balancing.
Page-level color detection Users are only charged the color rate on pages that actually contain color.
Assigning Administrator Level Access PaperCut allows different levels of administrator access to be defined via access control list.
Browser Based Administration Administer the system straight from your web browser anywhere on the network.
User Web Interface Additional information, logs and tools for users.
One-click Reports Get access to the most important data in realtime - straight from your web browser, from anywhere on your network
Ad-hoc Reports Create reports with custom data by specifying date ranges, filtering and sorting by the data available. Great to give you different perspectives on printing usage
Schedule / Email Reports Create reports that will be regularly generated and emailed to members of your organization or scheduled to be saved to disk. Great for sending regular reports to managers without even needing to compile it first.
Printer error notifications Printer error notifications can be used to give advance warning when printers go into an error state.
Control Copiers PaperCut MF Track and control copying, faxing and scanning
Secure Fast Release An organization uses secure print release to hold jobs in the print queue until the user presents their access card at a print device
Best solution for education and normal print monitoring
Best solution for businesses using account based charging