Please to be providing a picture of all these hands you have. On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. :-) > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
