With budgets always a concern, unlimited access to color printers in schools can be a problem.  K-12 schools struggle with how to control printing in color and how to restrict printing.  OKI has the ability to let schools monitor and control printing using color with select color printers and MFPs (multi-function products) by defining who can print in color and what gets printed.

Color Access Policy Manager (CAPM) makes printing in color cost effective for your school. It allows administrators, teachers and/or computer lab technicians to control printer usage by determining who and what can print in color, in black & white or not at all. CAPM lets you assign access levels by user name, PC/server name, application, file name and web sites. Once your policy is configured in the color printer, CAPM determines how – or if – incoming jobs will print. All policies are password protected for added security, which allows you to change policies in real time for special projects and classroom assignments.

In addition, CAPM gives you the ability to acquire job logs from your OKI color printers, enabling printer monitoring, so you can analyze how the devices are being used – everything from user name to application to the number of color or black & white pages printed. It's data you can use to develop new policies or judge the effectiveness of your existing policies.

With Color Access Policy Manager, offering color printers for schools and, therefore, color in the classroom is now a reality. Get the impact of HD Color on your print output – not your print budget. Click here to view a video of an OKI Senior Marketing Manager discussing OKI's Color Access Policy Manager (CAPM).

With the Ringdale FollowMe printing solution, schools can monitor the number of prints, control color usage, and supervise single and double-sided printing.