LRS VPSX is an output management offering from Levi, Ray & Shoup (LRS) in Springfield, Illinois.
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PaperCut
Score 8.4 out of 10
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PaperCut Software headquartered in Melbourne offers their suite of print and output management solutions including PaperCut NG as well as embedded software to supply hardware integration.
LRS can be expensive. It supports all kinds of printers and models. One location for drivers for the printer. You do not install a printer driver at each workstation. It uses a central driver stored on a server. Easy management of printers. Can be deployed through SCCM or other products. It can be expensive for small businesses. It has been designed for large enterprises.
PaperCut is well suited in an environment where paper usage is overdone. In the marketing and advertising industry, lots of paper is wasted due to visual usage like presentations of client show-casings. It is less appropriate for a workplace that only uses digital work rather than any print. Otherwise very useful.
VPSX is license based on the number of printers. You can have multiple VPSX servers. They do not charge extra for software licenses. As long as the total number of printers does not exceed a certain amount.
It has secure printing features that are really great. There is an additional cost for secure printing. We have about 150 secure printing licenses out of over 2800 printers.
You can manage multiple VPSX printers from any VPSX web login. As long as the configuration is corrected you should have no issue.
It can be integrated with AD. All groups and members are defined in AD, then at the application level, you can grant access to manage the product.
It can give you granular access for managing printers based on your company policy and requirements.
Support is great. They can hold your hand if you do not know. The support staff is well trained. If the support is unsure, they will bring another SME to help out right away. After hour support is quick to respond to the call.
We use a local company to support our PaperCut implementation. They have been fantastic with any request we've had over the years. For the most part the issues we have had were simple enough and were often solved by a driver or application update. PaperCut has been nothing less than reliable.
The biggest ROI impact would be that we are saving money every year by printing less and less.
As part of moving towards this centralized model, we no longer purchase new printers.
The only negative was the initial push back from users that have been printing to local printers for years and years. This is something that will obviously go away over time.
