[THIN] Re: OT: What's the biggest problem you deal with?
- From: "Greg Reese" <GReese@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:55:51 -0500
Most of my print driver related problems have one away since we switched =
from HP to Oki printers. The Oki drivers are very well behaved on a =
terminal server and all the features remain available. You don't have =
to "pretend" the printer is really something else to get it to work. We =
also have a few Canon imagerunners. No problems with those either.
I support a lot of nurses with a electronic charting app. They print =
charts duplexed to an Oki 24dxn. In almost two years I have not had a =
single call about any of the four we have deployed. Those of you in =
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 =
Citrix or even terminal server. I think it is weak/sloppy drivers from =
HP. It just happens that most people use HP. I hear about a lot of =
Lexmark problems too. Most of the remaining printer problems I have are =
all with HP printers. The 1100 seems to always go to sleep and not wake =
up.
I would be curious to see poll of the list or something of printer =
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 =
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 =
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,
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Since it's Friday I thought I'd ask something that I've been wondering =
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 =
had
to run my own Citrix farm day after day. (Which means I'm either totally
lucky or a total sham!)
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Anyway, as Citrix administrators, what's the one thing that's the =
biggest
pain in the butt in running your Citrix farms? Printing? AV? Security
Patches? Profiles?
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Hmm. maybe I should say "other than the users, what's the biggest pain?"
:-)
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Just curious,
Brian
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