A print server will bring you many benefits, the biggest being consolidation and a single point of management\control. You'll need a print server to do any type of "job control or filtering" like you have been tasked to research. Also, you'll be able to setup security on the print queues so only certain users or groups can print to them. I could go on but 2003 server R2 and server 2008 have made major strides in print management. I would check it out.
Sorry for the quick reply but let me know if any other questions come up... Shook -----Original Message----- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 4:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Print Management Systems Hey List, Being a school, we have a lot of network printers. Currently, they are all setup directly to the comptuters as needed. We're begining to see print jobs come from unknown locations, and unessesary large print jobs... So the question of Print Management has come up. I'm curous what the community is using. I've also not touched a Windows print server, so what are the pros and cons? I will need something that works with Windows and Mac OS X. Thanks for any input, --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
