[THIN] Re: thinprint for 64bit Citrix to 32bit PrintServer

After a lot of rooting around we found the same.  Print Drivers do exist for a quite a lot of the printers (mostly OKI and HP) it’s just a pain trying to find them.

 

I’ve been looking at this for  a couple of days and there seems to be a few ways to go “printdriver-less”.

 

Has anyone ever gone down the route of driverfree printing and had it work in medium/large citrix environments with mixed network printers?

 

I’d be particularly interested in printeron, print-it, thinprint, ghostscript?  Any others?

 

Thanks,

Ant.

 

From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Greg Reese
Sent: 11 December 2008 14:01
To: thin@freelists.org
Subject: [THIN] Re: thinprint for 64bit Citrix to 32bit PrintServer

 

that HP universal driver is crap.  I've had mojor challenges finding 64 bit print drivers too.  it's getting better though.

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:51 PM, M <mathras@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

You cant beat 64 bit servers running PS 4.5 we have around 60 of them for our Core applications.

(apart from some of the seamless application differences with PS 4.5 running on 32 bit - at the same patch levels).

 

What printer vendors are you using ?

 

We are using 64 bit and after some searching found around 95% of the drivers had 64 bit versions.

We use Xerox , HP and Brother although are standardising on Xerox MFDs.

 

Have you seen this article

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/895612/

 

I did spend quite a bit of time hunting for drivers and even spoke to the manufacturers. One of them said a couple of printers had no 64 bit printer driver. The drivers did exist and turned up in Windows XP 64 bit downloads.

 

If a 64 bit HP driver does not exist, they recommend an alternative driver to use or the HP universal drivers instead.

Xerox have 64 bit drivers for almost all of their printers apart from some of the older non supported models.

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Anthony Green

To: thin@freelists.org

Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 9:36 PM

Subject: [THIN] Re: thinprint for 64bit Citrix to 32bit PrintServer

 

These are a mishmash of network printers (session based assigned via citrix policies) so can't use the UPD.

 

From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Joe Shonk
Sent: 09 December 2008 15:20
To: thin@freelists.org
Subject: [THIN] Re: thinprint for 64bit Citrix to 32bit PrintServer

 

Why not just use the UPD included with Citrix?  For most organizations it works great.  Very, very few cases where a third-party solution is required.

 

 

From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Anthony Green
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 5:13 AM
To: thin@freelists.org
Subject: [THIN] thinprint for 64bit Citrix to 32bit PrintServer

 

We are upgrading a Citrix farm to 64bit and was looking at this as a possible solution to the print problems we would get with 64bit drivers (or lack of them).

 

We are not going to be using thinprint for client printing... just for network printing.

 

I've been told we need to buy .print engine for all CTX servers and the .print client would be installed on the print server.

 

Does this sound right?  Anyone give me a rough idea of cost for this per Citrix Server (approx 60) or per user?

 

Thanks,
Ant.