Departments

A department groups individual users under one name to track printing at the group level. A department is any logically-related group, team, or division.

Users are assigned to departments. The department itself is not considered a user. Users are still validated by CAS for their credentials when they try to print, fax, copy, or scan. But for pricing, billing, and reporting purposes, you may prefer to group user activities under one “umbrella”. For example, if your organization is already divided into separate departments or divisions, complete with their own budgets and printers, you should create both user accounts and departments within Equitrac.

If you already have existing Windows domain groups defined for various departments at your organization, you should use a flat file import or ADS to create user accounts. You can set the department name during the import for each set of user accounts.