PrinterLogic’s enterprise printer and driver management solution delivers centralised print management and empowers end users to install their own printers with a single click.
The Problem With Print Servers
Costs
Each print server at every site requires hardware procurement and licensing, cooling, power, physical security, management, maintenance, upgrades, virus scans, and so on. The average cost per print server is between €1,750 to €4,400 per year.
Risk from a Single Point of Failure
If the print server crashes, no one can print. Clustered print servers do not crash as often, but the trade-off for the high availability of clustered print servers is higher costs for hardware, licensing, management, power, and maintenance.
Management Headaches
Print servers require operating system upgrades, patches, security, virus scanning, and so on. All of these take time and money to carry out.
Scripting and GPO Management Overhead
Managing scripts and GPOs to deploy printers to end users can consume significant IT staff time and resources. Often even the simplest of tasks, such as changing a printer’s name or replacing a printer with a new model and printer driver, requires a script.
Self-Service Printer Installation
Print servers’ native self-service printer installation features are often too difficult for end users to use. Instead, they call the service desk and wait for assistance. Service desk calls are expensive and end users are unproductive while they wait for printer installation assistance.
PrintNightmare
PrintNightmare is the name given to a vulnerability in the Windows Print Spooler service that is responsible for sending print jobs to a print device. The vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker allowing them to remotely run code on a compromised system. All versions of Windows client and Server Operating Systems are affected. Microsoft have remediated the vulnerability by requiring local admin privileges for the installation of print drivers. This effectively breaks all traditional print queue deployment methods. PrinterLogic ensures your system is secure from PrintNightmare while providing automated print queue deployment via the PrinterLogic Client.
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Implementing PrinterLogic to Eliminate Print Servers
Install the Application
IT staff use the PrinterLogic installation package to automatically install the IIS role, PrinterLogic web application, and database on a virtual or physical Windows Server 2008 R2 (or newer) at your organisation’s data centre or HQ.
Import Printers
IT staff use a web browser to access the PrinterLogic Admin Console and import printer objects and associated drivers from existing print servers. During the import process, all of your existing printer drivers, port settings, device settings, and preferences are copied from your print servers into the PrinterLogic application without changes. From then on, IT staff can use the PrinterLogic Admin Console to create and manage the printer objects.
Install the Client
Once installed, the Client silently converts all existing printers that were connected to print servers into centrally managed direct IP printers that print to a physical printer. Customized printer settings that were configured on the printer, such as the default printer setting or duplex and paper tray configurations, remain intact through the conversion.
- Eliminate print servers
- Simplify printer-delivery management and deployment
- Reduce help-desk calls and empower the end user
- Lower print management costs
- No scripting or GPOs
- Simplify printing in virtual environments
- Discover printing activities, costs and waste
- Increase security of print jobs
- Support printing from mobile devices
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