Virtualising your Print Architecture

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ThinPrint Simply reinventing Printing

Virtualising your print Architecture

Steven Jones

Personal PrintingDriver Free Printing: ThinPrint Output GatewayV-LayerAdvanced adaptive CompressionBandwidth controlPrinter Mapping with .print AutoConnectSSL Encryption Streaming Print DataPort PoolingSimple, Central Administration.print Tracking.print Viewture: Local Page PreviewSupport for devices with limited resources.print Client Manager.print Client Java.print Virtual Channel GatewayVMware Integrated

Additional products•.print Connection Service•.print Host Integration Service•.print Queue Manager•.print RDP Engine•.print Engine for VMware View•.print Management Centre

Performance characteristics of .print

Personal Printing

Simple and cost-effective solution for all that…

Want to print confidentially to network printers

Want to reduce waste

Want to make every printer a Personal Printer

Personal PrintingIndependence of printer model and manufacturer!

No requirement for printer estate refresh!

Driven by our Market Leading DriverFree Printing technology, TPOG

Perfect integration in .print optimization and management

Why is native print management a pain in the...

Windows Printing

No such thing as Universal Printer Drivers!

No workarounds available for bypassing Windows print process.

Controlled Print Management with the use of Microsoft Print Server role.

EMF data a Microsoft standard print data language.

Windows Printing was never designed to be used in distributed markets.

NO Print Server management - Printer Drivers

Print server 2003

- Print Driver for 2003

, XPx64

, XPx64, W7

, 2008R2

Central print server2003

Citrix Environment/VMware2008/Win7

LAN/WAN

Win7 Print driver

WinXP Print driver

Citrix UPDVMware TPOG

Win2003 Print driverWinXP Print driverWin7 Print driver

LAN/WAN

Win7 Print driver

WinXP Print driver

Thin ClientThin OS

NOT 2008/Win7COMPATIBLEWin2003 Print driver

WinXP Print driverWin7 Print driver

Citrix UPDVMware TPOG

Win2008/Win7 Print driver

Win2008 Print driver

ThinPrint .print technology

Windows Printing

No such thing as Universal Printer Drivers!

No workarounds available for bypassing Windows print process.

Controlled Print Management with the use of Microsoft Print Server role.

EMF data a Microsoft standard print data language.

Windows Printing was never designed to be used in distributed markets.

ThinPrint driver free printing with TPOG

ThinPrint's virtual print driver is independent of the target printer device.

Allowing single instance management of printer drivers, one driver version for one OS.

Full support for centralised print infrastructures breading centralised print management.

Certified by Microsoft.

Driver 1Driver 2Driver 3Driver 4Etc.

ThinPrint Output Gateway

V-Layer technology

Provides central print and printer driver

management on a central print server

Print Server management - ThinPrint .print

V-Layer DEMO

Print Server management - Printer Drivers

LAN/WAN

Win2003 Print driver

Thin ClientThin OS

ThinPrint AG employs more than 160 highly qualified professionals and has more than 520 renowned distributors and resellers marketing the ThinPrint product portfolio in over 80 countries.

ThinPrint .print has been the world leading software-based print solution for 11 years and is your first choice for printing in distributed networks.

Over 12,000 assured customers worldwide, an average of 35,000 users per month moving to print with ThinPrint .print.

ThinPrint AG

Supported Environments

Support - Environment

Simple – Any environment is supported by ThinPrint technology.

Centralised architectures requires centralised services.

Multiple protocol support ICA, RDP, TCP/IP, LPR...

Windows is the most common platform that is encountered in the Data Centre.

Sharing printers from a central source to ANY environment, that's not ThinPrint that's Microsoft!

Support - Device

Rule of Thumb - If it can be installed in a Windows OS then its supported by ThinPrint.

The ThinPrint Output Gateway driver is independent from ThinPrint Compression.

ThinPrint can compress Native print driver data (RAW) as well as Windows print data (EMF).

More and more devices come with .print embedded.

More print server or embedded print devices available to make your current print fleet .print enabled.

Strategic partners

Citrix certified .print as the first print solution for their customers worldwide with the Citrix Ready logo.

Microsoft has signed and certified the virtual printer driver for all current Microsoft desktop and server operating systems.

Basic features of ThinPrint .print technology are integrated into all VMware desktop virtualization solutions.

Renowned hardware partners including printer, thin client and print server manufacturers already integrate .print client into their devices.

Personal PrintingDriver Free Printing: ThinPrint Output GatewayV-LayerAdvanced adaptive CompressionBandwidth controlPrinter Mapping with .print AutoConnectSSL Encryption Streaming Print DataPort PoolingSimple, Central Administration in the MMC.print Tracking.print Viewture: Local Page PreviewSupport for devices with limited resources.print Client Manager.print Client Java.print Virtual Channel GatewayVMware Integrated

Additional products•.print Connection Service•.print Host Integration Service•.print Queue Manager•.print RDP Engine•.print Engine for VMware View•.print Management Centre

Performance characteristics of .print

Questions?

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(Vmware Partner zone)

www.thinprint.com

Virtualising your Print Architecture

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