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If one is not available, it will still be accepted, but only in
unlicensed mode
. The
client will get a message indicating that the job was received in unlicensed
mode.
No page count checking is done for this mode.
Click Charge Mode
Where the domain & number of users is unknown at the point of sales – for example a public
service driven by users creating their own accounts via the web for onboarding documents, the
click charge license can be used. It allows any number of domains and users to submit jobs into
the Connect system, providing credits are available.
1. This mode enables the second HTTP Get from the Printer Driver, so that a web page
(which could include a preview of the document) request is processed by Connect. For
each job received, the plug-in records key data in the database.
2. One click equals one page (any size) of the submitted print job. The number of copies (if
used) is recorded in the database, but not used for click calculations.
3. The click charge for all incoming jobs is counted upon receipt, but if a job fails for any
reason, then the click count is restored as if the job was not received.
4. Each incoming job is checked to see if the number of pages will result in remaining credits.
If so, the job will be accepted, otherwise it will be dropped and a message will be sent to
the Printer Driver in the SysTray.
5. All jobs from any IP, user, domain or machine will be allowed, if there are credits available.
6. New click charge licenses are added to Connect. Each new click charge buy will be
reflected by an additional entry in the license file itself, indicating the newly
purchased credit amount. The license check algorithm sums up all entries.
Example: A customer purchases a click charge license on 1
st
January 2016 with a credit of
100,000 pages. At the end of March, they determine that their remaining credits (20,000)
won’t be sufficient for some big jobs they are expecting and so they purchase another
100,000 credits. The issue date of the new credits is 1
st
June 2016. The new credit balance
will be 120,000
Incoming Print Jobs and the License
Each incoming print job is checked against the license to determine if it can be handled in
licensed mode or in unlicensed mode. Here are some examples to clarify this:
Scenario 1
OLCS
is licensed in Click-charge mode with 10,000 pages. They have already used 9,870 credits,
so 130 are left.
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Case 1: A job comes in with 40 pages. This job can be handled in LICENSED mode, so this
is a "licensed job".
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Case 2: A job comes in with 243 pages. This is more than 130. This job is handled in
UNLICENSED mode (reduced metadata and no database entries). This is an "unlicensed
job".