1. What is the n-Billing?

The NDDigital n-Billing is a solution that seeks to accomplish Print Management across the enterprise, numbering printing, copy, fax, scan, controlling quotas, projects, etc. without the need for infrastructure at the customer environment. With this new concept of print environment management, cost reduction with printing in your company is guaranteed.

n-Billing offers precise information about your environment, with which you are able to safely control waste and also increase your business profitability.

With this tool you can get all your environment information through reports that can be issued filtering by cost Center, by printer, per-user or group, with a simple interface and zero administration.

In this system all the Print Management infrastructure is located at the NDDigital's Datacenter and to use this solution simply install the billing agents, as n-Client, n-Client cluster, n-MF, along with n-host in a Workstation or server where the print logs will be sent via HTTPS for the datacenter where they will be stored and made available to the customer or consultant through reports via the Web.

See the Technical Overview of the Solution.

See the Commercial Overview of the Solution.

2. How can I start using n-Billing?

To start using n-Billing simply register your company in our website. After you can download the n-Host and the billing modules for printing, fax, copy, projects allocation, quota control, etc. Then NDDigital, based on the information from your registration will send you an e-mail with the client activation key.

After finishing the software installation, wait for the data synchronization and access n-Billing server through your login. It will be already possible to generate print billing reports of your environment.information from your registration will send you an e-mail with the client activation key.

To access the online training site and watch the videos click here.

3. And how about the investment?

In this first phase the NDDigital n-Billing should be used only for testing without any financial investment. In a second stage, when n-Billing is fully implemented the investment will be calculated based on the volume of printed pages, an estimative of pages printed by month. To learn more, please contact NDDigital Team by clicking here.

4. What are n-Billing installation prerequisites?

Because its database is located at the NDDigital Datacenter, n-Billing is simple to install and use and it requires just a few prerequisites, as follows:

For more information see the modules manuals for the solution.

5. Where should I install n-Host?

5.1 Environments with one only print server

In this environment n-Host must be installed on the print server along with the n-Client and/or n-MF. Internet access is necessary.

 

5.2 Environments with more than one print server

In this environment n-Host must be installed on a print server along with the n-Client and/or n-MF with Internet access. In the other print servers n-Client must be installed which should point only to where the n-Host is installed.

 

 

5.3 Environments with no print server

In this environment n-Host must be installed on any of the stations with Internet access. The n-Client must be installed in all stations.

5.4 Environments with parallel printers

The n-Host must be installed on the print server with Internet access along with the n-Client and/or n-MF. The n-Client must be installed in all workstations which have local printers parallel or USB.

 

 

5.5 Environments with a print server without access to the Internet

In this case the n-Host must be installed on any workstation with Internet access and the n-Client and/or n-MF must be installed on the print server which will pass the data from the environment to the station for the n-Host that will transmit via Web to the n-Billing server.

 

5.6 Environment with Print cluster server

In this case the n-Host must be installed on a station with Internet access and the n-Cluster must be installed on the Nodes of the Print cluster which will pass the environment data to the n-Host that will transmit via Web to the n-Billing server.

Note: On the environments displayed above installing the n-Spy is possible, which allows project assignment to printed jobs, and n-Security module which prints the user ID, date and time of printing on printed pages. Both are installed in the location where the n-Client is installed.                

Use the environment survey or contact the commercial team. click here.