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Feb 13-16, 2012

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Enterprise Network Printing
January 20, 1999

Network printing is much like the phone service, you only notice it when it's not available. From a user's perspective, printing should be a very simple process. Just click the print button and the document appears at the local printer. To the administrator, however, it's a different story. There are printers to purchase and deploy, print servers to configure and clients drivers to install and test. Then, after all of this, each printer must be monitored and maintained.

The task of configuring and managing network printing services is much different than working with a printer connected to your workstation. With enterprise network printing, there are different network and client operating systems, different printer languages and an assortment of user requirements to contend with. With such complexities, it is no simple task to create a method to easily design, deploy and manage all of these devices on your network.

To simplify matters, we'll take you through the entire process of supporting an enterprise printing solution -- from printer selection and deployment to management. Specifically, we will discuss the process of determining user and administrator requirements and translate those requirements into specific printer features. Along the way, we'll dip into printer performance and feature issues, network and operating system connectivity, printer management and resource accounting, ending with a sneak peek inside future enterprise printing technologies.

Printer Selection Methods

Selecting the most appropriate printer for your environment requires much more than placing a phone call to your local reseller. You must first assess user and administrator needs, such as performance, cost and ease of connectivity. Only after looking at these needs, will you come up with corresponding feature requirements upon which you can reliably base your printer purchasing decisions.

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