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Best Printer Service

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by tiz

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I have a 2000 server at my disposal. Besides having DHCP on it I want to use it as a print server. What is the best way to manage a print server for a small LAN consisitng of 35 Printers and 500 users?

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by cdcents

Not quite sure what it is you are looking for. I am presuming that all your printers have network interfaces on them. You should assign static addresses to your printers. Decide on a naming scheme that is descriptive yet brief. You could use LLFFDDPPP (LL- location, FF - Floor, DD - Department, PPP - Unique number assigned to printer). Stay away from printer specific names like HP5000 etc because somewhere down the road these printers could be replaced by others but the name of the queue tendsto stick.
If possible use two print servers instead of one and balance the printers across the two based on physical location. I do not foresee any problems with having the DHCP server function as a print server. Will look out for further posts ifyou need more clarification.

by tiz

Thanks for the reply. My fault for being vague. I was looking more for managing tools other than the standard service offered. For example, I have found webjetdirect to be a very interesting tool. I can manage the service from anywhere I have accessto the web. I have all of your points already in place, except the second server idea. I don't have that option available to me. But I do have three cards in the server where one is strictly for fault tolerance or fail over. Thats as balanced as theapproved funds are going to let me get.

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