Easily Secure Your Devices and Documents

Colleges and universities are very mindful of privacy regulations and laws, including the Family Education and Privacy Act (FERPA) in the United States. This means that even though they appreciate the cost effectiveness of shared network printers, many institutions will provide administration and staff people with desktop devices to print confidential student records. In fact, it’s likely that desktop printers can be found wherever there are a lot of confidential documents being created and printed: in the Office of the Provost, Office of Development, Office of the Controller, etc.

Desktop printers themselves are cheap. The ink they use is very expensive, however. As a result, the cost per page of a desktop printer is five times that of a network printer.

With print optimization solutions from Pharos Systems, you can have your cake and eat it too: you can print documents securely on network devices. Moreover, the Pharos-enabled secure printing process is very easy for everyone on campus to use.

Pharos Secure Release Here® ensures that print jobs wait for their owners. No jobs are printed until the person who submitted them walks up to a Pharos-enabled printer and authenticates himself or herself. Authentication is as easy as swiping an ID card through a card reader. That’s it. Your confidential documents are kept safe — without complicated instructions to follow, job names to type, or PINs to remember.

And your devices are secured, too. With Pharos software in place, only authorized people can use your printers, copiers, and multifunction products.