Re: Vera my little friend, printing with HP3600.
- From: "TP" <tperson.knowspamn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 02:49:54 -0500
Hi,
This printer is a host based printer, and as such is not a good TS printer (unless you are using a universal printer driver). It will use much more CPU and bandwidth for each print job when compared to a printer that has the native ability to understand & process PCL or PS.
I did a quick test for you to illustrate what I mean. I opened a 44KB text file in notepad, and printed it to the HP Color LaserJet 3600. It was 12 pages.
The amount of print data that downloaded to my workstation was 4,905KB!! In addition, CPU usage on the TS was *heavy* during the entire time the print job was downloading to the client.
I printed the same file from Notepad to an HP LaserJet 4.
The amount of print data that downloaded to my workstation was only 78KB!! There was a spike in CPU usage while the 12 pages were spooled from notepad, but then it went back to 0% afterwards.
I again printed the same file from Notepad to an HP Color LaserJet 3800 PCL 6. The amount of print data that download to my workstation was only 352KB with a brief CPU spike.
If you have several users printing on your TS, using a host based printer could quickly bring the server to a crawl because of the CPU and/or bandwidth used.
The above test was relatively basic. Real world printing will involve multiple fonts, colors, some graphics, which will amplify the problem.
The other alternative is to purchase a universal print driver solution, but that will typically cost at least $995 per server. Depending on how many users and different models of printers, a universal print driver is *well* worth the price. Your server will be stable, printing will work, and printing-related administrative work will be reduced to near zero.
Print-IT
http://www.provisionnetworks.com/solutions/print-it/print-it.aspx
ScrewDrivers v4
http://www.tricerat.com/screwdrivers.php
-TP
Tom Eirik Jensen wrote:
Hi!.
Is there known problems with TS2003 and printing to 3600, they said:
"Bye a 3800, It works"
Any one who uses HP Colour Lazerjet 3600 on TS2003?
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