[THIN] Re: Windows 2008 Printing enhancements for Citrix

Funny you should ask this There was a slide in the virtual event yesterday that addressed this. It really was a great forum.  Here are the bullet points

*New UPD Driver based on XMP Paper Specification (XPS)
*Functionally the same as existing EMF UPD
*Requires client to support .Net 3.0 (XP, Vista, W2K3, W2K8)
*Non-Windows Clients still use PCL- or Postscript- based UPD
*Use of XPS is Automated
*EMF is preferred UPD method (XPS is NOT default)
*If EMF not supported and user device has .NET 3.0 installed, XPS will be used
*If neither occurs fallback occurs to PCL5c then PCL4 then Postscript

So basically the answer is not necessarily.  However this chart does NOT include Microsofts enhancements to printing in the 2008/Vista engine which are greatly improved.

Jim Kenzig
Blog: http://www.techblink.com

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Angela Smith <angela_smith9@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi

Ive been informed Windows 2008 has some Printing enhancements.  We have numerous issues with Printing in our Windows 2003/Citrix Presentation Server 4 environment and we were looking at purchasing ScrewDrivers to fix this.  If I upgrade the Citrix farm to Windows 2008 with Citrix 4.0 will my Printing issues dissappear?

Are the Printing enhancements in Windows 2008 enough to fix all Citrix Printing issues or do we still need third party printing solutions.  Im hoping Windows 2008 has enhancements around universal printing and printer compression

Thanks

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