Konica Minolta Business Solutions Australia Pty Ltd (Konica Minolta), is releasing an updated version of its successful PageScope Enterprise Suite (PSES) software for effective print fleet administration and management. Highlights of the release are the new follow me printing module, called My Print Manager, increased security, reduced administration and greater support for card reader technologies. PSES now consists of five individual components to handle setup, control and management of users, input and output devices, and related network configurations. Its modular structure makes it an attractive solution that can be tailored to meet requirements for a wide range of users.

"Security, cost recovery, print volume analysis and output management are keywords in today’s office printing world," says Michael Anastassiou, Product Manager at Konica Minolta Australia. "They are the driving factors for the solution, which every business needs to secure and manage device access, provide an undeniable level of redundancy and a great way to reduce and recover costs at the same time. Our PageScope Enterprise Suite addresses all these needs in a professional and cost efficient manner. Since launching our original version of PageScope Enterprise Suite, we have listened closely to our customers and invested a great deal of time and effort in developing and further improving this successful software."

The Net Care Device Manager is the nucleus of PageScope Enterprise Suite around which all modules can be arranged. This element is free of charge and monitors all output devices, their status, availability and performance. It ensures constant high productivity of all systems while significantly reducing administrative input. It may be used either as a stand-alone application or in conjunction with any one or up to all four modules of the PageScope Enterprise Suite.

The new addition to the PageScope Enterprise Suite is My Print Manager. It provides a flexible, secure and economic follow me printing functionality that is available in Windows Print Server and Point & Print environments. Due to direct integration with Active Directory, LDAP authentication services and Novell Directory services, single sign on is now available, no need to input credentials in the driver. As it only allows printing by authentication, output security is increased and "unclaimed prints" are a thing of the past. Users benefit from mobility and flexibility: Individual print jobs can be printed on any device in the network at any time or be deleted from the server if they have become obsolete. An increase in productivity and cost efficiency is the result. Furthermore, My Print Manager helps to reduce paper waste and enhances eco-friendly printing.

In terms of security, PageScope Authentication Manager is an integral part of the PageScope Enterprise Suite. Administrators know how time-consuming it is to set up scores of users and allocate individual user rights on numerous multi-functional devices (MFDs). Not to forget the changes that are constantly required; new users have to be added, access rights amended, users deleted. The PageScope Authentication Manager takes administrator convenience to a new level. For the first time, an application serves as central user database and can be dynamically accessed by all networked devices. Once a user has been registered in the Authentication Manager and individual user rights have been allocated, the user is given immediate access to all connected output devices. And the seamless integration with Active Directory makes sure of a unified user data structure. To combine security with ease of use, the implementation of ID card readers has become an essential option in the overall multi-functional peripherals business.

PageScope Account Manager is easy to use and streamlines the central monitoring and collection of counter readings from all registered devices, helping to reduce costs and realise savings. Designed for office environments from around 10 to thousands of employees, the PageScope Account Manager can monitor more than 1,000 devices and supply administrators with reports that include every print, copy, scan, and fax activity. Analysis of all data can also be drawn up and visualised.

These days efficiency rules the business – and in most offices this means a generalisation of almost everything employees are confronted with. Users of MFDs frequently have to battle with preconfigured settings that often vary from one output device to the next. Address books especially in large organisations can have thousands of entries although most employees only keep regular contact with a small circle of co-workers. PageScope MyPanel Manager offers true individualization of common company settings. Users can easily create their very own profiles, including individual display settings, a personal address book, and their own scan destinations. Even better, this individual user profile is automatically active at any connected MFD right after log-in. No more hassle from a different set-up on each output device and thousands of unwanted entries in address books.

Efficiency in today’s business world is all about saving time. With the PageScope Enterprise Suite, Konica Minolta helps administrators, IT specialists and users streamline their work, minimise their efforts and achieve more in less time.