Have You Embraced the Coming Electronic Documents Age Yet?

While many companies have successfully transitioned to being paperless offices, or have just cut down on the amount of pen-and-paper transactions and tasks that your daily operations call for, you probably still have the occasional need to print documents.

I would say I can count on one hand the number of times per week that myself or any employee in the Los Angeles office of my website design company actually prints anything since so much can now be accomplished electronically.

However, since you don't need to be processing the multitude of print jobs you might have had to twenty years ago, you won’t necessarily need a pricey, multifaceted program full of features you’re never going to use.

Instead, you’d probably be better off sticking with a “bare bones” printer system with a reliable print auditing program to ensure that the printouts executed do not exceed the printouts needed.

Several of these programs are available at little to no cost, like this Free Friday’s pick, PaperCut.

Many owners of businesses, especially smaller ones with fewer employees, would like to function in a similar way to save on resources and waste disposal, making a no-hassle application like PaperCut a great tool for monitoring printer use and determining if your use of paper documents should be scaled down or adjusted.

Free to systems of five or fewer users, PaperCut is a print logging application that lets you keep tabs on the volume of items being printed, as well as assign credit amounts to employees for the amount of printing you estimate they’ll need to do. PaperCut displays print logs in real time with live information in easily readable HTML, CSV, and even Excel if you want to track and analyze the data.

It is adaptable to most printer makes and models but does not require reconfiguring.

PaperCut is translatable to English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Japanese, and both simple and traditional Chinese, and works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.