Easily Secure Your Print Devices and Documents

Corporate
How often do you find confidential documents sitting on top of a network printer? How many of your employees are using desktop printers (which cost five times more per page than network printers) because they need to print private documents on a regular basis and cannot take the risk of sending them to the busy network printer down the hall?

With print management solutions from Pharos Systems, your company can roll out printing security for all network devices — and make it very easy for everyone to print securely.

Pharos Secure Release Here® ensures that 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 a company ID card through a card reader. That’s it. Your proprietary 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.

Education
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.

Libraries
Many libraries have relocated their internet computers or equipped them with privacy screens in an attempt to protect patrons’ privacy and reduce the risk that others will be exposed to material they find offensive.

But patrons are not just viewing material that’s sensitive or personal. They’re printing it too. And some are choosing not to print because they’re concerned that other people will read or take their printouts. Relocating printers will not solve the problem, nor will privacy screens.

With a print management solution from Pharos Systems, you can assure your patrons that what they send to the printer won’t be seen by anyone else before it reaches their hands. Pharos Secure Release Here® ensures that documents are not printed until the person who submitted them walks up to a printer and signals his/her presence. This can be accomplished simply by swiping their library card through a card reader attached to the printer.

It’s as easy as that to provide printing security to your patrons.