GoPrint's new GS-4 offers incredible flexibility for creatively establishing print pricing for your print customers, but we suspect that it is a feature not used to full benefit by our customers. With print rules, you can set pricing to recover costs more accurately as well as to influence the print behavior of your users.

What kinds of things can you do with print rules? Well, for example, you might

• Allow free prints for specific types of documents; this might include specific documents for coursework, administrative forms your users may need and so forth.
• Charge more for some types of documents - color documents for example
• Set a discount for off-hours printing
• Set a different price for oversize paper
• Encourage the use of duplex printing with a lower price to conserve paper expense
• Prevent printing of excessively long documents entirely by using the "Auto-Delete" rule with parameters set by page length and/or file size
• Charge different prices for different users or categories of user, e.g. staff, students, public walk-in users. 

You can learn more about print rules in your GoPrint User Guide;  the context sensitive help in the GS-4 Control Center can help you while you're creating or managing rules and, to help you get started, we've created a short tutorial for the newsletter to illustrate the process.

View a brief tutorial demonstrating how to create and implement a new price rule.