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    Printanista

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/AECI Software Solutions offers printer management software for managed print service (MPS) providers. Their Printanista remote device monitoring technology collects critical printing data from an unlimited number of devices.N/A
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    Printanista
    Considered Both Products
    ECI Software Solutions
    Chose Printanista
    it is a bit fancier/complicated version of FM audit & Printfleet
    Incentivized
    Chose Printanista
    We have only used Printanista. We have evaluated Kapax and Predictive Insight. We stayed with Printanista as we were already married to the product. The cost was too high for the others to go through the trouble
    Incentivized
    Chose Printanista
    Printanista has integrations with ECI which is a big feature for us. Besides that its pretty terrible
    Incentivized
    Chose Printanista
    We have started to migrate our fleet over to Konica Minolta's vCare and Kyocera Fleet Services. Both of these are machine based so they are significantly easier to keep running. Not one machine on these platforms has dropped off. They do lack in reporting and features, but I …
    Incentivized
    Chose Printanista
    User Interface and Usability:Printanista: Offers a clean and intuitive interface that makes it easy for users to navigate and access features. The dashboard provides a clear overview of all printers, allowing for quick monitoring and troubleshooting.PaperCut: While functional, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Printanista
    Printanista doesn't do much differently from other products in the same class. They are all relatively easy to deploy and monitor print levels. Most of the time, the printer readings are accurate and allow you to make sure a customer's print environment is running smoothly. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Printanista
    We had FMAudit before Printanista which seemed to be essentially the same
    Incentivized
    Chose Printanista
    used FM audit prior to Printanista
    Use - Print Releaf - runs beside Printanista
    Incentivized
    Chose Printanista
    Coming from FMaudit, Printanista was an easy and logical transition.
    Incentivized
    Chose Printanista
    I prefer Printanista because it can be used industry wide. Some of the other DCA softwares don't seem to care alot about getting data from other makes and models of machines that aren't their own. The Kyocera product I mentioned was called KMNetViewer when I used it, but it …
    Incentivized
    Chose Printanista
    We have used Print Fleet in the past as well as KFS. ECI FMAudit was the most well-known and seemed to work far better in terms of not dropping off networks than other brands. It is the most stable product we have used.
    Incentivized
    Chose Printanista
    Nothing stands up to ECI FMAudit's abilities.
    Incentivized
    Chose Printanista
    All 3 alternatives we liked better. We are currently in the process of converting over to Predictive Insight.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    71%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    79%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    82%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    46%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    User Ratings
    Printanista
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.5
    (10 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Printanista
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ECI Software Solutions
    We only use it to track meters and ink levels. But it's well suited for that as that is the most important thing to track, and the website does it well. As far as when it's less appropriate, I'm not sure, as we use it only when it's needed, and it does its job.
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    Pros
    ECI Software Solutions
    • It allows me to gather and organize meter data in relevant and useful ways. It works very well with MS Excel spreadsheets.
    • It provides complete meter data so that you can provide your Sales dept. with enough useful information so that eventual upgrade proposals can be constructed. It also provides real information that tells how much print volume may or may not have to suggest changes to a customer fleet of printers.
    • It is also simple enough for customers with smaller printer fleets so that you can isolate certain areas of the meter data that may prove useful in certain applications.
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    Cons
    ECI Software Solutions
    • The helpdesk and support is useless. I literally know more about the product than they do.
    • The onsites and connection to central is unreliable. We have to hire an extra employee just to keep this running.
    • The programers don't think about or test the patches the push out. Onistes break after they update central
    • Some machines will show up in the MIB walk but wont actually show up on the device page. Thier solution is to create a new account. They don't have the technical capacity to figure out why it is doing this.
    • Just a very unreliable product that we have multiple tickets a week open that they seem to never be able to resolve
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    Alternatives Considered
    ECI Software Solutions
    Printanista doesn't do much differently from other products in the same class. They are all relatively easy to deploy and monitor print levels. Most of the time, the printer readings are accurate and allow you to make sure a customer's print environment is running smoothly. Printanista works about the same amount of time as a Printix application.
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    Return on Investment
    ECI Software Solutions
    • Tremendous ROI for billing
    • Alerts are accurate
    • The interface is fairly easy to navigate and figure things out.
    • It could use improvement for some Xerox devices, as it lists some models as " . " instead of the model name.
    • This has saved us tens of thousands per year instead of sending techs to collect meters.
    • The latest version of this product allows you to access the interface of the device, from the cloud dashboard instead of having to remote on to a user's workstation and then get to the device. This is cutting-edge technology without a doubt.
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