Print Manager Plus vs PrinterLogic

Print Manager Plus audits, tracks, restricts, and secures printing infrastructure. Version 9.0 comes in Basic, Standard, and Premium editions, licensed per printer audited. Its audit records can include pages, color, copies, paper size, duplex status, document title, date and time, printer, and location. Administrators can set quotas and budgets, restrict printing, and create rules for users and printers. Security controls can hold, pause, or delete jobs from unrecognized users, require confirmation, and verify users before release. Authentication can use Workgroup, Active Directory, LDAP, or custom Print Manager Plus users. Premium adds client and project billing, a payment portal, printing cloud, and informational and configuration APIs. The portal integrates with PayPal Payments Pro, PayPal Payflow Pro, and the Authorize.Net payment API. A 30-day evaluation is available for all three editions. The Small Business Edition is $495, paid once, billed per Windows Server, with maintenance, updates, and phone support for one year; it is limited to 35 users and five printers per print server. Listed platforms include Windows Server and Workstation, web portal, iOS, Android, Chromebook, Surface, and Slate tablets.

PrinterLogic manages organizational printing through centrally managed direct IP printing, eliminating print servers. Administrators use one Admin Console to manage printer objects, drivers, profiles and settings, then push deployments without scripting or Group Policy Objects. Its Self-service Portal lets users install printers and drivers without IT support. Secure Release Printing holds jobs until users authenticate and release them at the printer. Print jobs stay local, with confidential data encrypted until it is behind the organization’s firewall. The mobile app supports direct IP printing, scanning, print release and off-network printing on iOS and Android. The agent supports current and previous releases of Windows, macOS, ChromeOS and Linux distributions including Red Hat and Ubuntu. The product page lists more than 200 integrations across identity, print, storage, back-office, operating-system and virtual-desktop systems. Pricing is on request, and a 30-day trial is available. Listed usage-based plans cost $109.60 a month for 50-99 print queues and $121.80 a month for 25-49 queues.