What is Sentinel?

Sentinel is an innovative printer management solution, designed for

organizations who need better control over their printing system

Sentinel provides improvements in many areas

Security

Cost control

Printer Management

Environmental impact

And more…

System Architecture

The job is captured and saved by

Sentinel software

print serverSentinel software

user station

User Station

databasePrint Process

Sentinelcontrollercentral

printer

Sentinelcontrollercentral

printer

A print job is createdby the user

The Sentinel server receives the user ID and finds the user’s print

jobs

The user identifiesat the controller

The print jobis printed

Security

To pull a job from the printer, the user must self-identify

Users can only see and collect their own print jobs

Printed material is not left unattended

Scan To Me prevents sending scanned documents to the

wrong address by mistake

Cost Control

Print jobs are not processed until the user who sent the job

comes to collect them

If the job is not collected, it is deleted after a timeout, defined in

the system settings

Budgets can be managed, by group or department

Generated reports indicate usage of printing resources

Existing customers report a cost

reduction of 20 to 30 percent

Printer Management

Web user interface for administrator use allows you to

manage the system from any workstation

Built-in reports can be delivered automatically by email

Simple to install and easy to use

Automatically detects network printers

Collects information and statistics, including errors relating

to the toner status

Centralized management, no need for individual workstation

maintenance

Printer Management

Environmental Impact

If …

Pages are only printed when

someone arrives to collect

them

System deletes forgotten jobs

after timeout

Administrators can force

duplex printing

Employees know their printing

expenses are recorded and

budgeted

Then …

Fewer pages are printed

Fewer printers are needed

Less electricity is used

Less toner and ink are

used

Mail To Print

Print email and email attachments by forwarding the email to

the Sentinel email account

Print from your mobile device easily, without connecting to the

enterprise network

QR Code and NFC Tag

Pull your print job using any smartphone or mobile device

Simply scan the QR code or NFC sticker attached to the printer

Works on any printer type, with no need for additional hardware

Scan To Me

Scan directly to your email account without typing your email

or managing an address book at each printer

Secure

Fast

Prevents mistakes due to sending scanned documents to the

wrong email address

Scripting Language

Enables administrator to create special rules

Customizes the integration of the system into the company

infrastructure to suit their needs

Calls external applications to perform special tasks

Sample scripts

According to job name, force duplex and long edge

Write user name, document name, date, and time on each page,

at the left side, vertically

According to job name, reduce toner by 25%

Scripting Language, cont.

Reporting System

Use the built-in reports

Program the Report Designer to create your own report, including

accessing external databases rather than the Sentinel database

Schedule your reports to run automatically

Deliver them by email or to the file system

Multi-Site Support

Install Sentinel server at each print server site

All sites are connected to the same database and managed in

one place by the Sentinel web application

A print job can be pulled from a different site, where it originated

Embedded Solution

Brother

Lexmark

Coming soon: Xerox and Samsung

Customers

Orange

Motorola

Kodak

Phoenix Insurance

Comverse

Checkpoint

BDO Consulting Group, Ziv Haft

PricewaterhouseCoopers Israel

UPS

…

Israeli Aircraft Industries

Israeli Prime Minister’s Office

Israeli Ministry of Finance

Israeli Comptroller’s Office

Israeli Homeland Security

Israeli Ministry for the Environment

…