Hi,
We have VMware View 5.3.2 installed with a printer server on the same network.
Our physical computer is on a remote site (20MB between sites) with network printers mapped, the printers is on the remote site.
When we connect to VMware View from the physical computer (with view client) the network printer is redirected with thin print drivers on the virtual desktop.
I understand that the thin print driver is compressing the jobs and send it to the physical computer's printer, BUT if the printer on the physical computer is a network printer from my printer server, so that means the printer sends the job to the printer server for processing and than comes back to the printer on the remote site !!
to sum up the printing process:
Thin print printer (servers network) -> network printer on the physical computer(remote network) -> print server(servers network) -> network printer (remote network)
so my question is:
is there any way to short that process ?
something like: Thin print -> printer server -> network printer (but its impotent to keep the compression feature because of the bandwidth saving)
Instead of using the client-redirected printer, you should try using the location-based printing feature to set up the network printer - that way traffic will go directly from the VM to the network printer and not involve the client. See Setting Up Location-Based Printing
Mike
Thank you for your response.
If I will use Location based printing have a a lot of disadvantages:
1. the parent machine must have all printer drivers in it.
2. the printer will now use thin print, so no compression for the print jobs.
3. i'm using floating pool so every time users logs on the printer will be installed from scratch!
are you sure is a good idea ?
Is there others solution to this ?
It's really only one or the other I'm afraid with the built-in printing solution - either client redirection or LBP and each have a trade-off. Ultimately the data that's being sent to the printer has to be in the form the printer understands, so it's about limiting the last step to only local network. So the best improvement you can get is to not have your print server and printers separated over a WAN link, have a print server local to each site. Then the thinprint solution would mean compressed data to the client and actual print data to the print server (close to the client) and on to the printer (close to the client). There are customers that do use LBP with floating pools that work within the requirements - pre-installing the printers on the template means that it's not really an install from scratch at login time.
Hey,
Actually you just gave me an idea !
I will configure local IP printer (no printer server needed) on my physical computer and than the print job will go from the thin print printer to the local IP printer and than direct to the printer !
One last question:
How can i modify the thin print driver to use by default the maximum compression instead of "optimal" compression ? and also to enable SpeedCache
The default configuration is optimal compression with unchecked SpeedCache
i attached a picture.
Thanks !!!
I think a lot of the advanced options are limited to Cortado's standalone enterprise product, to be honest I'm not that familiar with all the features that aren't included in the simpler VDI-only version we ship. Maybe someone else could chime in here?
Can someone help me with the thin print settings ?
Thanks.
It seems like the vmware view (and Citrix) environments always give a few different scenarios to decide for the printing environment. One thing I had and you brought it up, was to configure Direct IP printers within the sessions, so then print jobs are sent directly to the physical printer, not having to deal with the print server. You do have to deal with the manual management of the printers though. You said you have a 20MB pipe which should be plenty sufficient for printing unless you guys are doing extremely large jobs all the time? I went this solution and the manual and scripting was fine until finding the solution from PrinterLogic. They removed ALL of my print servers, made everything direct IP (even outside my virtual environment) and I lost zero functionality of management, installing printers automatically in sessions, people's desktops and a few other cool things. You may want to check them out for your environment.
