Hair fibers present torsions at many regions along the thread, while Caucasian hair has a cylindrical cross-section. The small angle of the waves of very curly hair makes it more susceptible to breakage, when mechanically worked making curly hair more difficult to comb without provoking frizz. Although the production of sebum is high on African hair, curly and wavy hair they are more prone to have oily scalp but dryer hair fiber.
Sebaceous glands of African descendants are frequently less active, when compared with the Caucasian ones, and they produce low amounts of sebum. This way, both scalp and threads are dry because they do not have good lubrication, even when the cuticle is preserved and the scalp tends to be less hydrated.
Usually, the scalp is relatively dry in order to the naturally irregular distribution of sebum. But, as the fiber is extremely sensible and prone to breakage it is not unusual that curly and straightened hair do not achieve long length and breaks during the growing process.
Fine straight hair can transport sebum very well, and curly-coarse hair tend to minimize tress clumping and limpness. The use of conditioners and leave-on products decrease interfiber friction making hair easier to comb. Chargeability also decreases helping to improve dry combing. The use of anti-dandruff shampoos can make hair more difficult to comb.
High cleansing shampoos remove surface oils and increase chargeability by depositing small amounts of anionic surfactants onto the hair. Less flyaway is achievable by lubricating the fiber surface and decreasing static charge. Grooming a nonlubrified hair may lead to hair breakage. Abrasion and friction are impactant factors that cause hair damage by protein loss. The use of conditioners with oils and silicones are important to minimize the rubbing and friction of the cuticle cells for chemical treated hair and after the use of anti-dundruff shampoos.
The number of hair follicles in Caucasians is This is the way the African descendants may experience some feeling of hair loss after performing a hair straightening procedure because when the hair loses volume, the scalp may be exposed because of the lower number of hair follicles. Patients want their hair to be resistant to breakage with no split ends. Hair strength is a mix of hair body mass and resistance to breakage. A strong hair is a hair with its full capacity of growing healthy in both diameter and length and an intact cuticle and cortex.
We know that split ends are more likely to occur in weathered and oxidized hair. But, split ends happen when the cuticle is removed damaged and the cortex-cortex CMC serves as a route for the propagation of axial splits in the fiber, leading to the formation of cracks and split ends.
Hair strength depends on cuticle integrity and amount of water in the fibers, conditions that are related to chemical damage. Chemical damage by bleaches, dyes, straighteners and even sunlight can weaken hair and increase inter-fiber friction, leading to breakage.
An important factor involved in hair breakage is the occurrence of tangles created by combing forces. Where the break occurs along the fiber, correspond to the point of higher combing forces. The type of fracture depends on hair condition and wet versus dry combing or brushing. Combing dry hair is more related to short segment breaks, and wet combing is related to long segment breaks. The short segment breaks are more related to split ends.
Straight to wavy hair combed dry, produces higher end pick forces than mid-length forces, but when wet, produces higher mid-length combing forces corresponding to where hair breaks and to the amount of breakage. The work of combing highly coiled hair is lower wet than dry.
The reverse holds for wavy to straight hair. Split ends form more readily from the abrasion friction in combination with torsional deformations grooming and styling. Splitting occur when the cuticle is damaged and weakened. Crack is formed in the cortex. Few cuticle layers do not hold the ends of the hair fiber together.
Also, highly oxidized cortex cell membrane by free radical chemistry is more susceptible to split. Hair treated with free radical cosmetics and exposed to sunlight is susceptible to splitting. Also, hair body is maybe defined as the structural strength and resiliency of a hair mass, sensed by patients as having a soft and firm touch and full volume.
Full volume is meaning a scalp full covered with terminal hair fibers that grow to the desired length without breaking. Strong hair appears as long, full, shiny, manageable hair. Manageable hair is the same as easy combable hair, perceived as soft hair, easy to finger comb. Weak hair appears as dull, with irregular length due to split ends , frizzed, rough, sometimes with low density on the scalp, tangled and difficult to finger comb. Prescription medications are often focused on improving scalp hair density.
Dermatologists are very used to prescribe minoxidil and finasteride in order to stimulate the anagen hair phase. But it is not always possible to obtain terminal thick hair fiber. Many postmenopausal women may achieve a better cosmetic look if the medical prescription is combined to cosmetic hair care products that may increase hair fiber diameter in a nonpermanent way. Fiber diameter is another key contributor to thinning hair, but it is less often the focus of medical or cosmetic treatments.
Acrylate polymer combined with dimethicone may affect the diameter and behavior of scalp hair fibers to counteract decreasing fiber diameters. It may be applied in the morning, leaving minoxidil to be used at bed time. In the work of Davis et al. Shampoo must aim the scalp more than a hair. The entire scalp has to be rubbed with the shampoo from the front to the back, and small amounts of shampoo have to be applied on each region of the head under the hair.
Appling the shampoo on the top of the head will increase hair friction and cause hair tangling. After full rinse of the shampoo, the hair must be gently towel dried, and the conditioner should be applied on the hair length avoiding the scalp. The conditioner has to be completely rinsed out. Application of hair conditioners after shampoo will lower inter fiber friction and reduce combing forces. If the hair is curly, leave-on products may be used during wet combing.
The use of leave-on products on straight virgin hair may cause an oily look and dull the hair. Gentle hair is dealing actions gentle shampooing, gentle towel drying, gentle brushing or combing is recommended.
Many products may be used to lubricate and seal cuticle cells, such as silicones dimethicone and aminoterminal silicones and vegetable oils. Grooming with a hair dryer or flat iron requires a silicone heat protector that will spread the heat along the hair fiber surface avoiding water boiling and the development of hair bubbles.
Historically, the first hair straightener procedure was used for African hair and consisted on applying petrolatum based oils on the hair combined with hot irons or hot combs pressed to the hair so the device could slide easily and straighten the tresses.
This type of process produces only temporary straightening, functioning cohesive and adhesive forces in a highly viscous system to keep the fibers parallel. The habit of hair straightening was first used to allow manageability of very coarse hair but nowadays having straight hair has become popular all over the world.
Official hair straighteners are called chemical relaxers, and the effect of hair straightening is permanent. The high pH 9. In the contact with the cortex, the straightening product reacts with keratin, breaking and rearranging the disulfide bridges, which making the spiral keratin molecule soft and stretched. The chemical relaxers may not be applied on the scalp for they can cause skin burn. It is indicated that some petrolatum is applied along the hair line and on the ears before the application of the relaxer to prevent alkaline burns.
Alkalies react with keratin cystine groups producting lanthionyl residues, a stable thioesther crosslink. Disulfide bonds are cleaved using an alkaline reducing agent; then the hair is mechanically straightened using a comb during the reducing phase to restructure the position of disulfide bonds between new polypeptide keratins.
They also react with peptide bonds, hydrolytically cleaving this linkage, producing acid and amine groups, and producing residues of aspartic and glutamic acids. The relaxers are applied on prewashed hair and after usage, must be rinsed off with running water. They provide the most permanent hair straightening but if applied with the wrong technique may cause scalp burns and hair breakage.
The pH of alkaline straighteners varies from 12 to above Hair is sensitive to pH value changes and alkaline solutions swell the fibers and open the cuticle scales.
This can make the hair susceptible to friction, lowering its resistance and strength. Hair straightening needs to be repeated every 12 weeks or longer. The emphasis should be only on new growth hair since repeated treatments can lead to hair breakage, which usually occurs at the junction of the new growth and previously treated hair.
Careful application to new growth only and previous conditioning of the hair can help prevent excessive breakage. In the work of Shetty et al. Sodium hydroxide lye-relaxer may straighten the hair in only 20 min. Although hair relaxers are desired for increasing length, Khumalo et al. This may be true because of the supercontraction effect. It is a chemical reducing agent which selectively weakens the hair's cystine bonds instead of disrupting the entire protein.
Afterward, the thioglycolate must be oxidized neutralized with a special solution of hydrogen peroxide. If a hot iron is applied during the process, the permanent straightening can be achieved. Hydroxides and thioglycolate are not mutagenic and show no evidence of carcinogenicity. If applied with the right technique and without touching the scalp, they are considered safe. The authors recommend that African descendants and individuals with very curly hair and sensitive scalp use no-lye relaxers.
Hydroxides and thioglycolate are incompatible with each other. If the hair is treated with hydroxides the same hair cannot be treated with thioglycolate. Also, both are incompatible with bleached hair. So, it is not unusual to receive a patient complaining that the hair broke hair shed because of hair breakage after the use of a relaxer. To avoid mistakes like that, the salon professional must perform a test that consists on the application of the product on a strand of hair to prove compatibility.
If the hair breaks during the test, another relaxer must be tried, or the hair is too weak to be straightened. Hair conditioning substances may be added to thyoglicolate straighteners in order to minimize hair damage. The use of formaldehyde formulations became very popular since , and the first country to start this practice was Brazil in Rio de Janeiro.
The formaldehyde solution was commonly used to sterilize medical materials and hospitals, and easy to find in every drugstore. The practice soon became so popular that called attention of the health vigilance organizations in Brazil ANVISA that prohibited the use of any product containing formaldehyde in concentrations above 0. Afterward, the formaldehyde was replaced by a potentially 10 times more mutagenic and the neurotoxic product belonging to the same aldehyde group: The glutaraldehyde.
Easily obtained from hospitals and clinics, glutaraldehyde was commonly used as a sterilizer. It was soon not a home-made product anymore, but a demi-industrialized nonlegal substance, commercialized in every salon in Brazil. The solutions came in beautiful colored bottles of ml to 1 liter. Still, consumers complained of burning eyes, strong smell and burning mouth and nose. To avoid sensorial discomfort while appling the BKT, the ingredients used today are based not on formaldehyde or glutaraldehyde, but on formaldehyde-releasers such as methilene glycol or glyoxylic acid.
Both substances are capable of releasing formaldehyde when heated during the blow-dry and hot iron application. Brazilian Keratin Treatment has increased popularity because the procedure is compatible with bleached hair and gives the hair a natural smooth, shiny look, impossible to acquire with the chemical relaxers.
Brazilian Keratin Treatment is known by many names such as albumine hair straightening, acetic acid treatment, and hair botox. The mode of action of the formaldehyde is different from the others relaxers because formaldehyde or other aldehydes are not hair straightening products. The hair is remodeled straight because water breaks hydrogene bonds of the keratin molecule as happens in a regular blow-dry.
The newly redesigned keratin is then kept in this shape because the formaldehyde crosslinks the keratin filaments in such a perfect alignment that the hair is now set straight and shines like no virgin straight hair is capable of. The light that strikes the hair reflects from the realigned keratin filaments and brings the effect of a brighter shiny hair.
A study by Simpson and Crawshaw[ 60 ] which analyzed the reactivity of formaldehyde and wool keratin, found that formaldehyde forms cross-links with the keratin amino acids; arginine, lysine, tyrosine, histidine, and the amide derivatives of aspartate and glutamate.
The most interesting characteristic of the aldehydes in the hair is that they are compatible to every other chemistry available to hair treatment, such as bleaching, permanent dyes and hair relaxer, lye or no lye. In Brazil, African and Hispanic hair is straightened first with chemical relaxers and afterwards treated with BKT to improve shine and softness.
Carbocysteine is a compound named glyoxyloyl carbocysteine or oxoacetamide carbocysteine. Carbocisteine is produced by alkylation of cysteine with chloroacetic acid and is a mucolytic agent with no effect on hair keratin. Glyoxylic acid contains an aldehyde functional group.
In fact, the aldehyde is not observed in solution or as a solid. In general aldehydes with electron-withdrawing substituents often exist mainly as they hydrate. Even though the aldehyde is a very minor component of its solutions, glyoxylic acid behaves as an aldehyde in its reactions and is considered a sensitizer and a toxic substance. We may conclude that carbocisteine is not a hair straightening product by itself, and it is formulated combined with an aldehyde such as glyoxylic acid.
Thermal treatments produce decomposition of tryptophan residues to kynurenine type oxidation products. The consequences are yellowing of white hair and darkening of bleached hair. After the thermal treatment with the addition of lipid products, hair may seem to be easier to comb.
However, after shampooing and removing the lipids, hair dries out exposing the damage caused by excess of heat. Although using a hair dryer causes more surface damage than natural drying, the work of Lee and cols concluded that using a hair dryer at a distance of 15 cm with continuous motion causes less damage than drying hair naturally. This practice is obviously, very aggressive to the hair fiber proteins integrity. To the contrary, in , the Committee for Risk Assessment of the European Chemicals Agency disagreed with the proposal to classify FA as a known human carcinogen carcinogenicity Carc.
Shrestha et al. They concluded that the creams showed an intense genotoxic response. DNA-protein crosslinks measured in peripheral blood cells of hospital workers suggest that the formaldehyde might enter the systemic circulation of humans exposed to formaldehyde.
Pierce at al conducted a study to characterize potential formaldehyde exposures of salon workers and clients during keratin hair smoothing treatments. Galiotte et al. Considering that this profession in many countries, including Brazil, is not officially regulated, it is not discarded that the use of BKT may have some influence in the data of this work.
A study of Maneli et al. Industry monitoring is needed to improve compliance and protection of hairdressers and consumers. Reactions to cosmetic ingredients in decreasing order of frequency are: Fragrances, hair-coloring agents p-phenylenediamine preservatives: Formaldehyde, parabens, quaternium a formaldehyde donor ; imidazolidinyl urea; DMDM hydantoin. Most of the cases are caused by leaving on products.
Short contact cosmetics usually do not cause irritation or allergy. Red henna is the dried and powdered leaf of Lawsonia inermis.
Henna has been used as a dye for the skin, hair and nails. Type I allergy is rare, and is mainly an occupational hazard in hairdressers sneezing, conjunctivitis, running nose, dry cough, dyspnoea, swelling of the face, or generalized urticaria. Lawsone is a potent oxidant of G6PD-deficient cells; topical application of henna may therefore cause a life-threatening haemolysis in children with G6PD deficiency.
There are many types of hair dyes classified according to the penetration of the dye to the surface or to deep parts of the hair shaft. In this chapter, we will approach the two most used types of hair dyes: Demi-permanent and permanent dyes.
The main difference between the dyes are their capacity to reach the cortex and stay there in a permanent way or to not reach the cortex and stay shallow on the cuticle surface and be washable after about shampoos. Those are the demi-permanent dyes. To overcome the cuticle and reach the cortex, the product must have an alkaline pH able to open the scales. Most of the times the permanent dyes use ammonia to increase the pH.
Some products are referred to be ammonia-free, but instead, they carry ethanolamine with the purpose. Both substances remove the natural cuticle lipid, the metil eicosanoic acid, which confers hidrofobicity to the fiber.
The use of permanent dyes may cause cuticle damage by removing the MEA and making the hair hidrophylic. Permanent hair colors are the most commonly used hair colors, because of their longevity, and ability to lighten the original darker color. These are also superior for gray or white cover. The pigmentation is permanent and the white hair that shows after days after the application is not due to removal of the dye by shampoo but, instead, it is due to new hair growth.
The permanent dyeing is an oxidation reaction that allows the pigments to get inside the cortex. The pigments are: Para-phenylenediamine, para-toluenediamine, and para-aminophenol, and para-aminophenol, known as the primary intermediaries with hydrogen peroxide to liberate oxygen.
And they also contain resorcinol, but this substance is gradually being removed from the ingredients in some markets, for safety reasons. Once inside the cortex, they combine with aniline dyes, to produce the required color molecules.
The roots need to be touch-up after 15—30 days and the product must be applied only to the new growth. Demi-permanent dyes do not contain ammonia or ethanolamine and for this reason are gentler on the hair than the permanent colors.
They also contain hydrogen peroxide, resorcinol and para-dyes. They are not as effective in covering gray or white hair because they only reach the cuticle. They do not lighten the hair shade. Sometimes are used as products to add shine and to turn the natural hair color into a more vibrate one. Demi-permanent hair color fadeaway after 10—15 shampoos, or even earlier.
Chemical hair straighteners are highly alkaline. For this reason, changing the color of a chemically straightened hair, either with hydroxides or with thioglycolate, is a delicate procedure that may cause hair damage and breakage. Therefore, the demi-permanent hair dyes are indicated instead of the permanent ones. The lack of ammonia or ethanolamine is responsible for a more gentle action without opening the cuticle scales and respecting the fiber integrity.
Is it, however indicated to wait 15 days after the straightening to dye the hair with demi-permanent dyes. Highlights or light shades are absolutely incompatible with chemical relaxers.
Their combined use can lead to hair shaft breakage. Chemically treated hair is highly sensitive and prone to breakage. Although the dermatology practice involves the use of anti-dandruff and anti-psoriasis shampoos and lotions containing hair damaging ingredients, as well as minoxidil and other hair solutions, it is difficult to avoid hair weathering due to chemical procedures combined with hair medical treatments.
The use of hair conditioners is indeed necessary to minimize friction and frizz caused by dermatological prescribed drugs. Choosing the right ingredients is absolutely related to achieve the patient's full compliance. Understanding the difference between the surfactants as well as the mode of action of conditioning agents, if on the cuticle or in the cortex, will help choose whether lubrication, strength, body mass, volume or sleekness is desired.
Excess of residues is a matter of great interest due to frequent usage of leave-on products by African descendent or Hispanic descendent patients, especially with longer hair.
Removing the residues without stripping the fiber is possible if the anti-residue shampoo laureth ammonium-sulfate is followed by the application of a thick moisturizing hair mask preferably containing hydrolyzed aminoacids, silicones and vegetable oils.
Mineral oil is mostly substituted by film-forming silicones, but may still be used combined to other cationic ingredients. The anti-residue shampoo may be used each 10 shampoos, or even more frequently, depending on the need. Extremely highlighted hair is the most sensible to anti-residue formulations. Chemotherapy is not suitable for everyone with MF. It temporarily affects the way the bone marrow works and may reduce the level of blood cells.
If you have chemotherapy, your doctor will monitor you closely. They will explain the possible side effects of any chemotherapy drug they recommend for you. If you have symptoms caused by a low red blood cell count anaemia , you may have treatment to help. You may have blood transfusions. You can usually have a blood transfusion as a day patient. Most people can have blood transfusions as often as needed. Steroids are drugs that are sometimes used to treat low levels of red blood cells.
Erythropoietin is a drug that may help to increase the levels of red blood cells in some people. You have it as an injection under the skin. If your spleen is enlarged and causing symptoms, your specialist may talk to you about having surgery to remove it.
There can be advantages and disadvantages to having this operation. Your specialist will talk to you about this before you decide. If you cannot have surgery to remove the spleen, it may be possible to shrink it with radiotherapy. Radiotherapy uses high-energy rays to destroy cancer cells. It can help to improve symptoms, such as pain and a high platelet count. But the effects may only last for a few months. Radiotherapy can cause temporary side effects , but they are usually mild.
They include tiredness and skin irritation. If you have higher risk MF and your general health is good, your haematologist may talk to you about having a donor stem cell transplant.
This treatment can sometimes cure MF. But it can also cause severe side effects, so it is not suitable for everyone. You and your doctor will need to consider the possible advantages against the risks of having this treatment. You will need to have regular check-ups and blood tests. If you have any problems or notice new symptoms between appointments, tell your nurse or doctor as soon as possible.
Everyone has their own way of dealing with the different feelings they experience. You may find it helpful to talk things over with family and friends, or your specialist doctor or nurse.
Leukaemia Care is a national blood cancer support charity for people with leukaemia and other blood disorders. It has regional support groups. Blood Cancer UK is a blood cancer research charity that provides information and support on any type of blood cancer. Myelofibrosis MF. Choose a type. Blood cancer - General. Essential thrombocythaemia ET. Myelodysplasia MDS. Polycythaemia vera PV. On this page. Right there with you. Answer four quick questions to get specially selected content for you.
What is myelofibrosis MF? Having an enlarged spleen can cause problems. It may: keep blood cells in the spleen instead of releasing them into the blood destroy blood cells. Both these changes can reduce the number of blood cells in the blood. See also What is cancer? Types of myelofibrosis Primary myelofibrosis pMF.
Post-ET myelofibrosis. Post-PV myelofibrosis. Symptoms of myelofibrosis MF Some people are diagnosed with MF when they have a blood test for another reason. These may include: tiredness feeling breathless fevers and night sweats losing weight itchy skin often after a warm bath or shower achy or tender bones and joints discomfort in the tummy area abdomen feeling full soon after beginning to eat bleeding or bruising more easily having infections one after another.
See also Do I have cancer? Possible complications of myelofibrosis Gout. Blood clots. Bleeding or bruising. This can cause symptoms such as: nosebleeds bruising easily abnormal vaginal bleeding bleeding gums very dark stools poo or dark vomit, caused by bleeding in the stomach or bowel.
Acute leukaemia. Blood tests to check for gene changes. Bone marrow test. You may have one or more of the following scans: CT scan , which takes a series of x-rays that build up a 3D picture of the inside of the body MRI magnetic resonance imaging scan , which uses magnetism to build up a detailed picture of areas of your body Ultrasound scan , which uses sound waves to build up a picture of the organs inside your tummy abdomen and pelvis.
See also Going for tests Just been diagnosed? For example it may be common in small schools to issue cards to staff but not students because they lose everything you give them!
The card numbers are stored in the PaperCut database in the Card ID field and are put into the system using various methods including:. At the software layer, PaperCut MF has been developed in a way where it can support any card type - the underlying technology is abstracted. It should be pointed out that identity cards are also not mandatory. Even though PaperCut MF is able to support a wide array of card technologies, the supporting hardware layer may impose restrictions.
Some MFD vendors "whitelist" a limited range of card readers and this range may limit the choice of card type. Other factors such as card encryption, encoding formats, or proprietary card technologies as often seen in the security door access environment can also impose restrictions.
With that said, the topic of card authentication is a mixed bag. It can be as simple as plugging in an off the shelf reader into the MFD's USB port, or may end up being a complex tail of endeavoring to match up reader technology with an existing proprietary card system. This is where our resellers and Authorized Solution Centers can assist. They draw on their past experience and access to testing hardware to put together a card authentication approach that best suits your environment.
When integrating these types of cards the common approach is to utilize the card serial number CSN where possible as this number can be openly read by the majority of card management and card ID personalization systems used in educational and corporate offices globally.
Should additional security be required, a user PIN can be added. If there is no CSN present, then the only method to read these cards is via the supplier's readers i. These readers are typically not suited for managing copy and print access alone, but can be combined with hardware copier controllers to provide an in-line solution.
The cost of combining proprietary access control readers and hardware terminals is typically high and a sample card will need to be provided for testing to confirm compatibility. Our ASCs or resellers can assist here. Other options do exist. A small sticker is attached to the existing card using a non-clashing frequency effectively turning the card into a dual frequency card.
The door system reads the card while the MFDs read the number off the sticker. Our ASC's have a few provisioning tricks up their sleeves to streamline such a process. The full list of options, listed in order of popularity are:. This is the most popular form of managing payments.
Each voucher has a unique code and students simply enter this code on a web page to redeem the amount and have it added to their account. Online payment gateways are popular in higher education. They allow parents and or students to make payments into their account using popular credit cards or equivalent.
PaperCut has a vendor neutral position on payment gateways and offers a large choice of providers ranging from popular well-known names such as PayPal and CyberSource to local banking providers.
In the self-serve payment area PaperCut is vendor agnostic and has worked with a number of hardware manufacturers to ensure self-service cash loading devices can connect to PaperCut's database. Again, your local Authorized Solution Center is the best point of call to discuss hardware reload and payment options. PaperCut MF is an online system where value is stored in a user's online account. Value is not stored on a card.
One of our primary design principles is "do stuff in software rather than hardware". User balances are stored on the server in the software layer similar to how a bank stores your account details on their servers rather than on your credit card. The card is simply an authentication source or a part-factor in the authentication process. With these systems there is no central database storing a user's balances but the credit is secretly encoded onto the card itself.
Where the investment in stored value hardware and stored value cards prohibits the site or supplier to changeover to a full online system, PaperCut MF is implemented as the supporting print and reporting system.
We do not promote or endorse any particular stored value system. Instead we have opened up our APIs and have left the task up to our users and 3rd party vendors to interface their hardware with our software. PaperCut MF has real-time connections with both these popular campus card systems and others via the payment gateways interfaces.
We've got lots of pricing and licensing questions for PaperCut MF answered here. Some of the questions are below:. PaperCut MF goes right onto your printers and MFDs — often at a firmware level — so it's a bit more complex to install. They also provide expert regional support, so you couldn't ask for a better team. A very valid question and one we get all the time. Five or ten years ago copier use was the majority of paper output.
Today printing and computer driven content dominates output e. We are aware that copy control is not for everyone and we encourage those sites to first start out with simple self-install print control with PaperCut NG. There are however a few industry changes that are making copier control attractive again. Embedded solutions are implemented in software at the device firmware layer and usually don't require extra hardware.
This means that the cost of implementation and maintenance over time is much less. We'd encourage you to consider copier control and also look at the other benefits the system can provide such as secure device access, secure print release, tracking of scanning and minimization of waste, etc. Often the question administrators ask is not the cost to implement, but the cost of not implementing a complete solution that ties off all loopholes e. They are best thought of as local PaperCut specialists.
We carefully select ASCs based on a set of criteria that carefully match PaperCut's own business approach:. All software licenses are made out in the end-user organization's name - not in the name of a reseller or a service provider.
You are the licensor. If you switch printer or MFD supplier in the future, your PaperCut MF license will continue to work and is owned in your organization's name. In the event an alternate reseller to your current reseller wishes to offer PaperCut MF embedded on the newly proposed devices, then the only cost you will pay is for the embedded software on these newly proposed devices as supplied from the new reseller.
In many instances to win your valued business a new supplier might bundle or fund the cost of the embedded software. In all cases the ownership of the software remains with the end user. At the time of writing we have thousands of resellers operating in over countries. We are working hard to ensure all PaperCut users no matter what language or part of the world they are in have access to the technologies in PaperCut MF. If you are in this position, please contact us first. On the server-side PaperCut MF is very easy to setup you may for example already be running PaperCut NG and it's on the copier side where you'll need setup assistance.
In many cases your local copier supplier may qualify as a PaperCut MF reseller and with our support would be able to sign up and support your installation. Today we have global relationships with many MFD and printer manufacturers and hearing your interest in PaperCut will in most cases provide a positive response and approach to assisting you as we are assisting them.
Most copier suppliers have the skills in-house to set up an embedded solution or copier terminal for the brands they supply and manage, therefore your key area of responsibility will be on the server side. Alternatively we may have an ASC or Reseller who services your area either under a remote support arrangement or in partnership with your local copier provider. Please let us know. The PaperCut MF reseller program is limited to organizations that work in the IT industry and have strong experience with both hardware and software.
This includes organizations like:. If you're interested in becoming a reseller, please apply on-line. First of all, we should highlight that PaperCut server software is very easy to setup and support. The success of PaperCut in the self-download and install environment is testament to this ease-of-use.
Where support is often required is in the area of device e. MFD integration. PaperCut Software also works closely with our resellers and many advanced issues are often elevated through to us.
ASCs are able to provide any layer of support ranging from assistance for your own deployment project all the way up to complete deployment planning and project management. PaperCut works closely with all ASCs to ensure they are able to support the majority of customers across all technologies. An ASC should be able to help you with all aspects of any project, ranging from:. Similarly, compatibility with future driver or operating system updates cannot be guaranteed. Determination of whether you should take up these services is yours, however we can advise as needed on the value our ASCs bring.
No problem! After all this FAQ covers only frequently asked questions and it's often the less frequently asked questions that are the important ones. Shoot us an email and we'll get back to you. Papercut just keeps getting better with every release. PaperCut does a great job and the easy installation and configurations makes it even more attractive. PaperCut ticked every box and then some and slotted perfectly into our network environment.
Compare our products or dive a little deeper into product solutions. This release contains an updated Java version which no longer supports bit workstations. If you have any bit users launching the User Client or Release Station from a network share, see this Knowledge Base article for more information. Which one's right for you?
Let's help you find the right product. Over million users! Discover everything that we do From simply tracking and monitoring of print jobs, to integrating BYOD printing or advanced custom job management, PaperCut does it all. We're always up for a chat! The global team, here to help. LOG IN. PaperCut MF is typically used to: Track and control all print, copy, fax and scan activity on MFDs Manage user access rights to devices based on function e.
Extra capabilities include: Track and control access with user ID authentication right at the device.
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