Re: Forcing WTS to ignore a printer for a single user



Patrick Rouse wrote:
> If you're an application hosting company you may want to offer some option to
> support non PCL Printers. There are plenty of printing programs available
> that use EMF or PDF Based Printing instead of PCL or PostScript. These allow
> you to support virtually any printer and cut down on bandwidth consumption.
> These also make for a more stable server environment because you don't have
> to install any printer drivers.
>
> The downfall of this is that these programs are not inexpensive, i.e.
> $1000-1500 per server.

We are presently investigating several of the alternatives. The largest
obstacle, rather than the price, is that everything we've looked at
require the installation of client software on the workstation doing
the printing. Only a very small minority of our clients would allow us
to install software on their workstations.

Presently, our systems are quite stable. The vast majority of the time,
our client's printers can be mapped to a compatible driver. We're
pretty picky about installing new drivers.

.



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