You can specify in a three-tiered system of user, group, and job the access to printing. Each user is given their own password and the system manager can maintain access to job numbers. You can also specify which printers are unsecured so that desktop printers in a user's office can be excluded from security considerations. When security has been activated, this dialog appears whenever any attempt to print occurs, unless the specific printer or user has been cleared for unsecured printing. At this point, the user is required to specify the user name, their password, and select from a valid job number or enter one into the job number slot.
Users can add comments to the print log to help justify why a print is being done.
For convenience, users may choose to save settings so that repeated prints are reduced only to re-entering the password. If you add PrintTracker support to your PrintChef Pro system, this adds several new capabilities to the printing security system. This is great for tracking how much printing a department might accomplish in a month. In addition to normal job specifications, PrintTracker adds to the mix the capability to limit jobs to a specific date or page count. An expiration limit means that when a job expires, the users can no longer use that job to print.