Managing Printer Drivers

Thursday, 08 February 2007 by Michel Roth

A new article has been published on MSTerminalServices.org by Wilco van Bragt. In this article Wilco discusses how you can manage your printer drivers in Terminal Server environments.

"In the support forums you can easily see that one the biggest challenges in a Terminal Server infrastructure is printing. There are many many questions about why users cannot print, blue screens on the servers and so on. In the article Can Third Party Software solve your Terminal Server Printing problems I already described in detail why the challenges are there, but here is a recap of the main reasons:

� Printer drivers are not written to be used on Terminal Servers;
� Print jobs use a lot of bandwidth
� Version conflicts by third party drivers
� All printer drivers need to be available on all Terminal Servers."

Read the entire article here.