Fuji Xerox

Default strategy

  • If the user has an account in the Dispatcher Paragon Payment System, a credit reservation is created for the user (user without a Payment System account has quotas set to unlimited for all operations).
    • If not, zero prices are set for the user.
  • The amount to be reserved depends on the user's current credit balance and on the price for an A4 color page.
    • If the price for an A4 color page is 0, then one quarter of the user's current credit is reserved.
    • If the user's current credit is higher than the price for 100 A4 color pages, then one quarter of the user's current credit is reserved.
    • If the user's current credit is lower than the price for 100 A4 color pages but is higher or equal to the price for 50 A4 color pages, the price for 25 A4 color pages is reserved.
    • If the user's credit is lower than the price for 50 A4 color pages, then the half of the user's credit is reserved.
  • Then the quotas are defined according to the reserved amount.
    • Separate quotas are defined for individual operations: color scan, b&w scan, color copy, and b&w copy
    • Each of the quotas (color scan, b&w scan, color copy, and b&w copy) is computed from the amount to be reserved. In corner cases, debt can be created.
  • Once the job is finished, the accounting information is sent to Dispatcher Paragon.
  • One settlement is generated for all transactions in the given session.
    • If a connection to Dispatcher Paragon Payment System is not available, the settlement is sent once the connection is available again.
  • For each print job, a credit reservation is created before printing based on the price provided by the parser. Once the job is finished, accounting info is sent to Dispatcher Paragon, which settles the transaction. If it is not possible to create a reservation, the job is not printed.
  • If the connection to Dispatcher Paragon Payment System is lost, it is not possible to create the credit reservation in Dispatcher Paragon Payment System, therefore, the operation is forbidden. If the connection to Dispatcher Paragon Payment System is lost during settlement, the settlement is sent later when the connection is available again.

The initial reservation has a specific time to live, once this time runs out, the reservation is cancelled.

Example

  • User credit balance in Dispatcher Paragon Payment System is 10 €, the price for an A4 color page is 2 €.
  • The price list is configured in the following way:

Operation

Price

A4 color page

2 €

A4 B/W page

1 €

A4 color copy

2.5 €

A4 B/W copy

1 €

Scan

3 €

  • Available A4 pages: User credit balance in Payment System/price for an A4 color page ≈ 10 € / 2 € = 5
  • The user has credit for 5 A4 pages (the user's credit is lower than the price for 50 A4 color pages), then half of the credit is reserved ≈ 10 € / 2 = 5 €
  • The quotas are calculated the following way:

Quota name

Quota value

Maximal price available for quota

A4 color copy

5 € / 2.5 € = 2

2.5 € * 2 = 5 €

A4 B/W copy

5 € / 1 € = 5

1 € * 5 = 5 €

Scan

5 € / 3 € = 1

3 € * 1 = 3 €

(info) Corner case: The user performs all operations allowed by the quota's setting (∑ Maximal price available for quota = 3 € + 5 € + 5 € = 13 € ), but the user has a balance of 10 € in Dispatcher Paragon Payment System, so a debt of 3 € will be created.

Limitations

Quotas are applied separately for color and bw copy or scan jobs.

  • Different quotas are defined for color/bw pages. Those quotas are consumed independently which means that if the user depletes the quotas for color pages, he/she is still allowed to copy/scan in bw because the quotas for bw pages remained untouched.

Quotas are applied only at the beginning of the scan session.

  • Users can be prevented from scanning only if they do not have enough credit before the scanning actually starts. It is not possible to interrupt a scanning operation that is in progress in case the quotas are depleted.

Dispatcher Paragon Payment System with direct print does not work.

Print all will print all waiting jobs regardless of the user's actual credit. Direct prints are not charged.

  • A debt can be registered for the user.

The initial reservation can be canceled:

  • If the MFD is busy after the defined time to live runs out.

Prints performed from Dispatcher Paragon are handled individually by Dispatcher Paragon subsystems according to prices estimated by the print job parser. For other types of print (e.g., printing from USB), there are quotas set by Dispatcher Paragon and handled by the device itself.

  • The print quotas are set during login and are not consumed when printing from Dispatcher Paragon. Therefore, when using both print from Dispatcher Paragon and other types of print in a single session, the user can go into debt.

Requirements

Dispatcher Paragon Payment System operations require devices with SSMI 1.4 or higher.

For proper functioning, the print job parser needs to be enabled and set to render jobs.