[THIN] Re: OT: What's the biggest problem you deal with?

  • From: "Nick Smith" <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:00:12 -0000

Greg, I'm sure you didn't eman to say that nurses were cheap! :)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Reese [mailto:GReese@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20
Sent: 14 February 2004 14:56
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: What's the biggest problem you deal with?

Most of my print driver related problems have one away since we switched
=3D from HP to Oki printers.  The Oki drivers are very well behaved on a =
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terminal server and all the features remain available.  You don't have =
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to "pretend" the printer is really something else to get it to work.  We
=3D also have a few Canon imagerunners. No problems with those either.

I support a lot of nurses with a electronic charting app.  They print =
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charts duplexed to an Oki 24dxn.  In almost two years I have not had a =
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single call about any of the four we have deployed.  Those of you in =3D
healthcare know that nurses break everything they touch.

They are also cheap. So is the toner.

I don't think the driver problems most people have is a problem with =3D
Citrix or even terminal server.  I think it is weak/sloppy drivers from
=3D HP.  It just happens that most people use HP.  I hear about a lot of =
=3D
Lexmark problems too. Most of the remaining printer problems I have are
=3D all with HP printers.  The 1100 seems to always go to sleep and not
wake =3D up.

I would be curious to see poll of the list or something of printer =3D
problems by printer maker/model.

Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Cherie Kelly
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 5:31 AM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: What's the biggest problem you deal with?


Printing Definitely.

And not just from a Stability point of view. Although they cause 90% of
stability problems.

But they want to fax, scan, print to different trays, lock their print =
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jobs, different fonts, orientation etc

I haven't used a single driver that has been problem or error free.

But if the Purchasing department wouldn't focus on buying the cheapest
printers, perhaps I wouldn't have these problems. If the cost of the
problems could be added to the cost of the printer, perhaps they would =
=3D
start to see the light. Atleast they wouldn't have a sterling
accounting.

Next I would have to say is PDF conversions. Although these are minor.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Madden [mailto:brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, 14 February 2004 4:25 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] OT: What's the biggest problem you deal with?


Hello All,
=3D20

Since it's Friday I thought I'd ask something that I've been wondering =
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for a long time.

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I'm a consultant and I focus 100% on Citrix and server-based computing.
While I work with a lot of different IT departments, I've never actually
=3D had to run my own Citrix farm day after day. (Which means I'm either
totally lucky or a total sham!)

=3D20

Anyway, as Citrix administrators, what's the one thing that's the =3D
biggest pain in the butt in running your Citrix farms? Printing? AV?
Security Patches? Profiles?

=3D20

Hmm. maybe I should say "other than the users, what's the biggest pain?"
:-)

=3D20

Just curious,

Brian

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