PaperCut MF integrates with Sharp MFDs leveraging the latest technologies in Sharp's OSA (version 3 & 4) while maintaining backward compatibility with all previous versions. PaperCut MF improves control over the Sharp OSA enabled MFDs by enabling the tracking, charging or billing of "off the glass" copying. The goal of PaperCut Software's embedded Sharp OSA enabled MFD solution is to leverage the capabilities of Sharp devices providing walk-up copier users with the same set of rich application features provided for print control including:

• End user authentication including integration with single sign-on environments such as Active Directory, Open Directory, eDirectory, LDAP and others
• Optional proximity and swipe card authentication (via standard USB based readers)
• Group-based access control to the device and color copying
• Monitoring and control of photocopying, scanning and faxing (quotas, charging, allocation and logging)
• Allocation of copying, scanning and faxing to accounts/departments/cost-centers/projects
• Releasing jobs from a hold/release queue (secure printing)