| Citrix Printing: Brush Up On The Basic Best Practices |
| Wednesday, 23 August 2006 by Michel Roth | |||
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"Being around Citrix for a while, one of the things that you’ll notice and continues to hold true is that printing is still one of the biggest challenges. With each release, Citrix touts that printing is better. However, reality sets in and you soon find out that you’re in the same boat again and you’re forced back to old school printing configurations. Don’t be mistaken, the EMF printing model of Citrix Presentation Server 4 is a good move. It has given back your server’s horsepower from the days of when a single logon or print job would spike your processors, or even worse, clog the user’s virtual channel. Most of the problems occur when administrators expect that printing will work out-of-the-box and are unfamiliar with how to properly set it up. Further, many of the helpful printing sites seemed to have ventured off topic, adding additional content and making it difficult to find a clear, concise, guided approach in how to set up printing. Once again, if you’ve been around Citrix for a while, you should know these best practices and how to set up printing, but a re-fresher never hurts. This guide is mainly written for the new Citrix administrator either setting up an environment or even trying to fix an existing one. Although you can debate some these recommendations, they have been successfully deployed in environments with 50,000 named users. Before you start the journey of setting up Citrix printing, you need to know what makes up the system and how they work together. " Read the entire article here.
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