Pharos Off-The-Glass enables you to track, control, and charge for copying. It integrates seamlessly with Pharos Uniprint, so your IT staff will have one unified system for managing mixed copy and print environments, and end users will have one operational model whether they’re copying or printing.

Manage Copying with Pharos Off-The-Glass (OTG) Software

Your school has likely had a system for charging students for copies for years. But as you implement Pharos Uniprint to recover student, faculty, and staff printing costs, it makes good business sense to update your copy-charging system to form a single, consolidated, document output solution. Using Uniprint in conjunction with Pharos Off-The-Glass, students and faculty have one convenient payment/bill-back method for both

Off-The-Glass for Higher Education

Think of your entire enterprise and the number of copiers your company owns. Managing the usage and shared billing of a large copier fleet can be a challenging task for even the most skilled IT Asset Manager – different models, manufacturers, and locations; ensuring only authorized employees use copying equipment; charging budgets only for the copy usage of their department’s employees. While it may be complicated, with Off-The-Glass
it is no longer impossible.

Off-The-Glass for Office

Pharos Off-The-Glass provides you the centralized tracking, accounting, and chargeback system to make this easy. Pharos also has a family of network terminals that can connect your entire fleet of analog and digital copiers, from all major manufacturers, into a centralized authorization and accounting system. A single centralized point of administration and control. Off-The-Glass lets you know that only authorized employees are using the corporate copying assets, enabling the collection and reporting of exactly how much copying is done and by which employee. And, with the click of a mouse gives you detailed reports or data files for creating accurate, auditable department level chargeback of all copy charges.

Accounting / Charging

Tracks user-based copy activities and usage so in an instant, you will know who made the copies, how many copies were made, from which copier, and which account (if any) to charge.

Flexible Charging Model

Gives you the ability to bill variable amounts based on selected copy features available via the vendor’s FDI (e.g. color, duplex, and paper size).

Reporting

Provides nine copy reports, four transaction reports, and eight 3rd-party charging reports,
so you have the exact, accurate information you need to make good decisions. Reporting can be integrated with a full license of customizable Crystal Reports, enabling you to obtain all the information you require while
maximizing your current investment in reporting technology.

Informed Decision-Making

Accurate User-based Ouput usage
information enables more informed equipment purchasing decisions, optimized technology sizing, and lower operating costs.

printing and copying; your IT staff has a single, centralized point
of administration and control, and your school has the same comprehensive support from a proven and trusted technology partner in the higher education market.

Whether your library is looking to recover your copying costs with patron pay-for-print, go green by cutting printing waste, or simply make copying more convenient and secure, Off-The-Glass is the solution to help.

Off-The-Glass for Public Libraries

                                                       Off-The-Glass works with copiers and multifunction products from all major manufacturers, which ensures a seamless fit into your existing environment. It offers the same level of configuration flexibility that you have come to expect from Pharos products, so you can implement copy management the way you want to.

Departmental Charge-Back

Charges back copying to departments, by staff name/number, by grant, or by one or more student accounts, allowing you to prevent copying abuse and waste while recovering costs.

Consolidated Control

Integrates seamlessly with the most common online authentication and billing systems. Seamlessly integrate with Pharos Uniprint, to create a complete waste reduction/cost recovery solution, allowing you to capture and consolidate all user-based document output activity - all within a single database.

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