Estimated time to print from a server in another office in another country?
Good Morning,
I have a question regarding if I need to purchase a local server or not for my office. The server will mainly be used as a print server.
At the moment all of our users (7 users) have a personal local printer. However, management wants all of the users to now only use the new Multi-Functional Printer from HP that we recently purchased for their print jobs. So we will be getting rid of all of the users personal local printers.
My office is currently located in the Cayman Island's. Our head office is in Paris, France. All of our data servers are in Paris, we connect to them on a secure wired connection (10 MB tunnel).
My question is, if I were to just setup the MFP printer on one or our servers in Paris, would the print job from the user in Cayman eat up the bandwidth and cause a huge delay to print a document since the job would go over the secure line to Paris and back to the MFP printer in Cayman?
Kindly advise.
Regards,
K
I have a question regarding if I need to purchase a local server or not for my office. The server will mainly be used as a print server.
At the moment all of our users (7 users) have a personal local printer. However, management wants all of the users to now only use the new Multi-Functional Printer from HP that we recently purchased for their print jobs. So we will be getting rid of all of the users personal local printers.
My office is currently located in the Cayman Island's. Our head office is in Paris, France. All of our data servers are in Paris, we connect to them on a secure wired connection (10 MB tunnel).
My question is, if I were to just setup the MFP printer on one or our servers in Paris, would the print job from the user in Cayman eat up the bandwidth and cause a huge delay to print a document since the job would go over the secure line to Paris and back to the MFP printer in Cayman?
Kindly advise.
Regards,
K
Lee W, MVP
It could. Depends on what your printing, what the bandwidth is, what you kind of bandwidth shaping your doing.
Not much (if any) for "normal" business documents.
Of course, if you print multipage catalogues filled with large pictures, the scenario will change, but that's probably not what you are doing.
To simulate, to could set up a workstation and via remote desktop connection print a typical document over the wire. Not exactly the same, but could give a pointer.
Of course, if you print multipage catalogues filled with large pictures, the scenario will change, but that's probably not what you are doing.
To simulate, to could set up a workstation and via remote desktop connection print a typical document over the wire. Not exactly the same, but could give a pointer.
In my opinion, with just 7 users in that office, I'd first just try to use the printer without a central Print Server. Most MFP printers include a LAN & / or WLAN port with a JetDirect PrintServer built-in. Just assign that Port a dedicated IP via your DHCP server, then setup the PC's to directly print to that IP.
You should then soon see if the printer can handle this. If not, you can always add a print-server later...
You should then soon see if the printer can handle this. If not, you can always add a print-server later...
ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
As Lee said, it really depends on what you are printing. Simple text-only business documents in Word will create spool files that are well below 1 MB. As it's unlikely people will submit jobs like this continuously, the effect on your connection will be minimal.
However, once images are involved, the sky is the limit. It gets worse when complex documents are created with numerous graphics on every page. A 10-page PDF with some limited graphics may top 25 MB.
And then there are mail merges - although I imagine they're rare these days. If you're sending 1 page with some limited graphics to 1000 people, you're talking of 1 GB. Not only will your network die, but so will your print server.
However, once images are involved, the sky is the limit. It gets worse when complex documents are created with numerous graphics on every page. A 10-page PDF with some limited graphics may top 25 MB.
And then there are mail merges - although I imagine they're rare these days. If you're sending 1 page with some limited graphics to 1000 people, you're talking of 1 GB. Not only will your network die, but so will your print server.