Can I have your opinions on Citrix/TS printing please

steinooo

steinooo

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Hi all,

I am trying to figure out a standard solution for printing via Citrix and Terminal Services in a multi domain windows environment with a mixture of good and poor bandwidth sites

I currently have a mixture of:

- local print servers
- terminal servers with printers installed on the terminal server itsself
- session printers (local printers being passed through to the TS session)
- print servers with universal print drivers on them

I don't know a great deal about printing in a server based computing environment, apart from the fact that print drivers installed on TS causes instability, and that bandwidth can be gobbled by printing (and I don't know why this happens)
I've seen all these 3rd party tools like Screwdrivers and Thinprint but I don't understand what they do and how they would help.

Has anyone any advice for me please? However big or small I'd appreciate it.

2 seperate examples of problems I've seen so far:

- Printers are installed on user's PC, printer appears on TS but causes aggro when logging off, taking ages I think because windows couldn't delete it
- Print job from the datacentre using universal print driver in Citrix takes HUGE amount of bandwidth for PDFs or pictures.
 
OK I would like to change my question: How do you find it best to deal with printing large files from 1) a Citrix site with poor bandwidth (but which has a local domain controller), and 2) a Citrix site with poor bandwidth (which has zero local servers)?

I.e.

- Where do you install the printers? (the on-site printer server, a remote printer server, the local Domain Controller, nowhere and just do IP mapping etc)
- Do you use an extra product (ThinPrint, Citrix Branch Repeater, Ticerat etc)
 
morfmedia said:
Can't help you too much but we used to use a piece of software called thinprint to minimise the size of print jobs over poor WAN links. Perhaps worth investigating
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glad you mentione this - how does it work? Is it installed on each laptop/desktop/thinclient and then on the Citrix server as well?

In the style of Terry Tibbs: thinprint. talk to me :D
 
Hi guys I'm re-looking at this, does anyone here use any 3rd party CTX printing software like ThinPrint or Tricerat I can ask a few questions of please?
 
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