Re: Officejet 4110 - can't print to

Hi Brad,

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 43KB
text file in notepad, and printed it to the Samsung ML-1430. It
was 12 pages.

The amount of print data that downloaded to my workstation
was 5,226KB!! 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 LaserJet
6P. The amount of print data that downloaded to my workstation was only 242KB 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

Brad Palmer wrote:
Jeff,

Thanks for the article - I think that will resolve several of my
MF/AIO printer issues - but not all

For example:

From the words of a user:
Port USB001 and the printer is a laser printer. When I hit print it
will queue and then automatically deletes before anything actually
prints. Samsung ML-1430
.

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