Sentinel pull priniting mangment solution
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What is Sentinel?
Sentinel is an innovative printer management solution, designed for
organizations who need better control over their printing system
Sentinel provides improvements in many areas
Security
Cost control
Printer Management
Environmental impact
And more…
System Architecture
The job is captured and saved by
Sentinel software
print serverSentinel software
user station
User Station
databasePrint Process
Sentinelcontrollercentral
printer
Sentinelcontrollercentral
printer
A print job is createdby the user
The Sentinel server receives the user ID and finds the user’s print
jobs
The user identifiesat the controller
The print jobis printed
Security
To pull a job from the printer, the user must self-identify
Users can only see and collect their own print jobs
Printed material is not left unattended
Scan To Me prevents sending scanned documents to the
wrong address by mistake
Cost Control
Print jobs are not processed until the user who sent the job
comes to collect them
If the job is not collected, it is deleted after a timeout, defined in
the system settings
Budgets can be managed, by group or department
Generated reports indicate usage of printing resources
Existing customers report a cost
reduction of 20 to 30 percent
Printer Management
Web user interface for administrator use allows you to
manage the system from any workstation
Built-in reports can be delivered automatically by email
Simple to install and easy to use
Automatically detects network printers
Collects information and statistics, including errors relating
to the toner status
Centralized management, no need for individual workstation
maintenance
Printer Management
Environmental Impact
If …
Pages are only printed when
someone arrives to collect
them
System deletes forgotten jobs
after timeout
Administrators can force
duplex printing
Employees know their printing
expenses are recorded and
budgeted
Then …
Fewer pages are printed
Fewer printers are needed
Less electricity is used
Less toner and ink are
used
Mail To Print
Print email and email attachments by forwarding the email to
the Sentinel email account
Print from your mobile device easily, without connecting to the
enterprise network
QR Code and NFC Tag
Pull your print job using any smartphone or mobile device
Simply scan the QR code or NFC sticker attached to the printer
Works on any printer type, with no need for additional hardware
Scan To Me
Scan directly to your email account without typing your email
or managing an address book at each printer
Secure
Fast
Prevents mistakes due to sending scanned documents to the
wrong email address
Scripting Language
Enables administrator to create special rules
Customizes the integration of the system into the company
infrastructure to suit their needs
Calls external applications to perform special tasks
Sample scripts
According to job name, force duplex and long edge
Write user name, document name, date, and time on each page,
at the left side, vertically
According to job name, reduce toner by 25%
Scripting Language, cont.
Reporting System
Use the built-in reports
Program the Report Designer to create your own report, including
accessing external databases rather than the Sentinel database
Schedule your reports to run automatically
Deliver them by email or to the file system
Multi-Site Support
Install Sentinel server at each print server site
All sites are connected to the same database and managed in
one place by the Sentinel web application
A print job can be pulled from a different site, where it originated
Embedded Solution
Brother
Lexmark
Coming soon: Xerox and Samsung
Customers
Orange
Motorola
Kodak
Phoenix Insurance
Comverse
Checkpoint
BDO Consulting Group, Ziv Haft
PricewaterhouseCoopers Israel
UPS
…
Israeli Aircraft Industries
Israeli Prime Minister’s Office
Israeli Ministry of Finance
Israeli Comptroller’s Office
Israeli Homeland Security
Israeli Ministry for the Environment
…