Dispatcher Paragon
Effective cost control with optimised printing
Print management as it suits you
These days, any organisation – whether smaller company, corporate environment, public organisation, or educational facility – will strive to maximise their transparency and keep costs in check. Very often, print is an overseen, but essential cost factor. So what you need is a precise overview of all printing operations to enable, wherever possible, the charging back of related costs to teams, departments, and individual users.
With our award-winning Dispatcher Paragon, you will get an attractive solution for the effective management of users and costs. Securing the print environment, the application facilitates detailed output & cost reporting, and provides cost assignment and chargeback, central user and role management, as well as budget and quota management capabilities. Thanks to additional core scanning capabilities, Dispatcher Paragon provides a comprehensive, easy-to-use workflow.
Key features
Dispatcher Paragon provides a comprehensive solution for end-to-end print management workflows including a range of useful features:
- Detailed output and cost reporting
Cost assignment and chargeback
Central user and role management
Budget and quota management
Connectivity with Microsoft Universal Print
Intelligent scanning as optional add-on with connection to all popular cloud storage applications
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Unified interface for print management and scanning features
Functional extension of Microsoft Universal Print thanks to Dispatcher Paragon's connectivity
Universal Print is subscription-based, integrated in Microsoft 365 and runs entirely on the cloud computing platform Microsoft Azure. That means, you can move your printing into the cloud and still use your favourite features like follow me printing, print cost accounting, detailed reporting and much more. You benefit from central control of your print related costs whilst Microsoft Azure’s redundancy helps to minimise system downtime.
Determine the energy and resource consumption of your printer fleet with an audit tool with Dispatcher Paragon
By using environmental audit tools to analyse your existing printer fleet, you can obtain environmental data and make improvements where necessary. Dispatcher Paragon offers an in-depth analysis of an organisation’s print, scan and fax usage as part of reporting and dashboards. The resulting Green Report inform organisations on resources saved on paper printing such as water, timber and CO₂ emissions.
Dispatcher Paragon wins Outstanding Cost Accounting & Recovery Solution
The world’s leading independent evaluator of document imaging software, hardware and services, Keypoint Intelligence says that “Konica Minolta Dispatcher Paragon comes with everything you need to take control of your print environment."
Convincing factors:
- Real-time tracking capabilities and rich reporting features that enable businesses to get a clear view of all print, scan, and copy activity
- Access control and secure pull print prevents unauthorised usage and protects sensitive information at the MFP
- Built-in payment system, customisable pricing structures, vendor-agnostic device support, and robust budgeting and quota tools
Cloud Printing Journey with Universal Print, bizhub i-Series and Dispatcher Paragon
Universal Print by Microsoft and Konica Minolta bizhub i-Series and Dispatcher Paragon work together to provide a secure and simple way for customers to create a corporate print environment within their Microsoft 365 business environment. The bizhub i-Series has native support for Universal Print. By integrating in bizhub i-Series with Microsoft 365, a Universal Print environment can be created without the need to build an on-premise environment. Users can enjoy a seamless printing experience and your IT department can be free from print server management.
Dispatcher Paragon: Secure printing processes and transparency over printing costs
With printers or MFPs in central locations, other employees can view their colleagues' printouts if there is no possibility to collect print jobs in a personalised way. Sometimes employees place print jobs and then quickly realise that they don't need the printout or need to correct something. Often printing costs cannot be assigned to a department.
Customer Success Stories
ELECTROPULT JSC
New energy for the digital age
GasNet has a fleet of 310 printers and MFPs, including 210 Konica Minolta MFPs and printers and one hundred devices from another vendor – all of which could be effectively managed via Dispatcher Paragon. The 6-month project brought together stakeholders from Innogy, the GasNet IT department with a dedicated team from Konica Minolta that supported GasNet at every step. This included solutions consultants, architects, technical support, a project manager, and 15 local technicians from around the Czech Republic who installed the solution.
GRAWE Banking Group
Saint Petersburg Scientific Research Institute of Vaccines and Serums (SPbSRIVS)
(SPbSRIVS) of the FMBA of Russia is a recognised leader in the development and production of influenza vaccines in the Russian Federation. With regards to a modern printing infrastructure and the freeing up of resources of the IT department SPbSRIVS decided for Konica Minolta as the preferred solution provider. With Dispatcher Paragon SPbSRIVS now uses a unified solution for monitoring and managing their printing infrastructure.
Your benefits at a glance
Decreasing costs and better operational oversight
Reduction of capital expenditure and improvement of cashflow
Increasing productivity in your organisation
Advanced information security and compliance
Reduction of your environmental footprint
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