PHAROS - BLUEPRINT

Pharos Blueprint Enterprise is the industry-leading Enterprise Print Asset Management software solution from Pharos Systems. It is an easy-to-implement, manageable, and highly customizable way for you to understand exactly what your organization is spending on print and copy, and to then turn that knowledge into significant and measurable savings for your company. Pharos Blueprint Enterprise blends innovation with simplicity and reliability to assess, optimize, account for, and maximize output assets across your enterprise.

Blueprint Enterprise helps you to accomplish the following tasks:

• Create a complete print asset inventory by tracking print/copy at the employee level.
  
• Create a baseline profile of the printing environment.
  
• Provide security for printing/copying assets.
  
• Determine if print investments are optimized.
  
• Identify underutilized devices.
  
• Determine total printing costs and the actual cost per page.
  
• Measure optimization results.
  
• Manage print environments.
  
• Transfer print accountability to the employee level.
  
• Combine meter reads with employee-level details
  
• Educate employees and modify employee printing behavior
  
• Secure network devices so that documents are only printed when the employee is present at the device
  
• Provide/identify enterprise-class solutions, including those that are scalable, centrally administered, and include system health checks and automation
  

Blueprint Enterprise features a comprehensive range of applications:

Print and Copy Accounting – unobtrusively monitors and tracks all network and local printing. It will tell you which employees are printing and copying, what they are printing and copying, where they are sending their jobs, and when employees are using the features of your output assets.

Optimization – measures existing output device usage and provides the information necessary for you to leverage your existing infrastructure and IT investment. Optimization ensures you have the right number of devices in the right locations.

Departmental Chargeback – based on the Print and Copy Accounting application, Departmental Chargeback can allocate costs to internal departments or budget centers for accounting and budgeting purposes.

Policy Print™ – in addition to reducing costs by optimizing your print fleet, you can also discourage excessive and unnecessary printing habits leading to an increased printing efficiency amongst employees. Policy Print allows you to set up policies and rules to help control unwarranted printing activities. It aims to reduce business printing costs by either informing or co

Secure Release Here® – controls the release of print jobs sent from employee workstations to printing devices, allowing for improved security when printing jobs to shared, network devices. In addition, employees experience the convenience of being able to collect their documents from any devices that have been “grouped” together. Secure Release Here™ addresses network device issues, such as lack of security and excessive waste.