Open-source alternative  ·  Print Management

Replace PaperCut MF with CUPS + Tea4CUPS.

Linux print server with job routing, quotas, and accounting. Tea4CUPS adds print hooks for tracking, redirecting, and logging. No per-device or per-user licensing.

You'd keep~R5 520 to ~R11 160/year

Current licence  ·  Print Management

PaperCut MF

~R5 520 – ~R11 160/yr

10-user estimate

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CUPS + Tea4CUPS

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R11 160/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. PaperCut MF's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Standard

R5 520/yr

R46/user/month

Per device

With CUPS + Tea4CUPS

Keep R5 520/yr

Enterprise

R11 160/yr

R93/user/month

Per device

With CUPS + Tea4CUPS

Keep R11 160/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

PaperCut MF grows around 10% per year on average. CUPS + Tea4CUPS hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR5kR10kR15kR19kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R18kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.01M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

PaperCut MFCUPS + Tea4CUPS, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

Same category

Other print management migrations.

Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.

Check the project

Migrate PaperCut MF.
Keep the money.

Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.