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Printing & Network Traffic

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by icetub

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We have printers that are accepting jobs from clients in a different building. We have two printservers with the same physical printer shared on them BUT one of the printservers is in the same building as the printer and the other printserver is inthe same building as the clients. Which creates more, if possible, network traffic...the printserver located in the same building sending a 100mb print job to the physical printer in the remote location or the client sending that same job to the remote printserver?

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by timwalsh

There is probably no difference. You are still talking about a 100MB file transfer over the single link between the 2 buildings whichever print server is used.

An advantage with using 2 print servers might be to spread the workload. However a possible disadvantage is you now have 2 printservers trying to spool print jobs to a single printer at the same time.

by icetub

That's what I've been trying to tell my boss but he never believes me (or anyone in our group) until someone else agrees with me outside of our group.

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