[THIN] Re: CE printing
- From: Angus Macdonald <Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:18:34 -0000
Although we don't do this as such, thin client devices simply spool print
jobs from the server so no specific local drivers are required. All the hard
work is done by the server.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Smith [mailto:nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 24 November 2003 10:33
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] CE printing
This is a fairly newbie-ish question as I've not doen much Thin Client stuff
before, so please forgive any ignorance. We have a project for a client who
wishes to have 20-30 odd individual users, geographically scattered, mainly
using email but also some Word, Excel. Budgetary constraints are pushing us
towards using an Windows CE Thin Client, with Windows 2003 as our back-end.
2 questions;
1) As each user is on their own, we will want to attach a printer
directly to each device. I've read as much as I can, but I can't seem to
find any references on the Web to using Ce Printers and therefore printer
drivers at the client end. Will Terminal Services detect this. If we install
the Win 2003 driver at the server will it print correctly? Or should we use
some Universal Printer Driver at the Serve end? And does anyone have a
similar hardware platform in place? If so, what printer/device combination
works?
2) I understand that in the days of Win NT, and to some extent 2000,
Citrix was a more or less compulsory add-on for TS. Is this still the case
with 2003? Or is it only important when you've scaled to quite large
installs?
Many thanks for any help,
Nick
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