On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:17 AM, justino garcia
<[email protected]> wrote:
> How are you people manging Driver Print Ques, and Printer servers on HP
> printers.
> Also in terms of 64 bit machines and 32 Bit. All running Windows 7
> Enterprise.
As a general rule, I prefer to stick with drivers that come "in the
box" with Windows. They tend to play well with others, offer a more
consistent UI, be reasonably self-contained, be reasonably
lightweight, they "never" install any kind of weird service or startup
task, and generally just work better.
The drawback is, they also tend to lack support for many more
advanced printer features.
On the third hand, most people never use those features, so they may
not be missed.
> Are people use the HP Printer Admin Tools, or just a simple Windows Print
> Server, with shared pritners???
The later.
For inventory and asset management purposes, we keep track of our
~20 printers using an Excel spreadsheet. If we had a few hundred, I'd
probabbly invest in some kind of software tool.
I have a Linux shell script that dumps page counts to a text log
every month, so I can check usage history if needed.
> How should I appoarch network printing.
We configure each printer to do raw TCP printing ("port 9100"), and
configure a corresponding Windows spooler port. We then configure a
printer object on Windows, loading all needed drivers. Client PCs all
print through the one Windows print server.
We disable all the other protocols/services/etc on the printers themselves.
> As of late, I been having issues with 4100 and 4350 Universal printer
> drivers not printing correctly PDFS or even simple word / emails.
I think my opinions on HP's drivers are well known at this point. :-)
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