Need to print from Coorporate LAN to remote small/home offices w/o VPN
I am looking for a simple solution to print to home offices that are not on a vpn, and have annoying internet providers like DSL or cable that are half retarded to work with.
I'm used to enterprise level support for Eithernet/T1's etc. I need a solution that simple and can be identical at many locations. This is why im leaning away from VPN routers. With vpn i have to constantly fight and understand how every home internet is configured. you ask for a modem and they send a router, you ask for static ip and they cant get it working... blah blah... .its making me nuts.
So i tough ill try Google cloud print. From what i can tell this is not very enterprise. I am using impact printers so no cloud ready printer exists. nobody makes a cloud print server for some reason. So i tried the Raspberry pi method. The problem is i need to print from our ERP software to these remote offices from a citrix published APP. google cloud printer only supports win7. So i cant install on my print server or my citrix farm.
How am I the only one that needs to do this? Or am i just struggling to find the right technology?
My next test will probably be a one of those email printers with carbon-less trace paper. (to avoid old dot matrix printers).
Please provide a sweet easy solution so i can get back to real work.
I'm used to enterprise level support for Eithernet/T1's etc. I need a solution that simple and can be identical at many locations. This is why im leaning away from VPN routers. With vpn i have to constantly fight and understand how every home internet is configured. you ask for a modem and they send a router, you ask for static ip and they cant get it working... blah blah... .its making me nuts.
So i tough ill try Google cloud print. From what i can tell this is not very enterprise. I am using impact printers so no cloud ready printer exists. nobody makes a cloud print server for some reason. So i tried the Raspberry pi method. The problem is i need to print from our ERP software to these remote offices from a citrix published APP. google cloud printer only supports win7. So i cant install on my print server or my citrix farm.
How am I the only one that needs to do this? Or am i just struggling to find the right technology?
My next test will probably be a one of those email printers with carbon-less trace paper. (to avoid old dot matrix printers).
Please provide a sweet easy solution so i can get back to real work.
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Dirk Kotte
if the citrix session runs nearly the printer you can use "client-printer-mapping"
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citrix printer mapping is only available to the user of that session.
im trying to have office staff print service tickets to someone who barley uses a computer so they dont have to do anything.
im considering eprint. but dot matrix printers dont have the feature. and we use 3 part forms.
im trying to have office staff print service tickets to someone who barley uses a computer so they dont have to do anything.
im considering eprint. but dot matrix printers dont have the feature. and we use 3 part forms.
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thanks for your suggestions