Month: August 2022

What is the best universal printer driver (UPD) for your environment to ensure driver incompatibility and bandwidth issues are not interfering with the daily workflow of your employees?

Many printer manufacturers and third-party software providers offer UPDs to help streamline printer management throughout enterprises. One might think that any of these UPD offerings will solve your incompatibility issues – after all, they’re “universal” aren’t they?

Many of us IT pros are creative at coming up with methods to solve day to day technical challenges including printing issues in our organizations. Why not? After all, it is part of our job and value added to the company.

Case in point – many admins have told me they use workarounds to solve their Citrix printer issues, which lead me to wonder if those workarounds actually made their lives easier and provided enhanced user experience in the long term.

Some of you may be asking yourself, what exactly is VDI virtualization(Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) and how can businesses benefit from this growing IT trend?

A quick answer is that VDI virtualization was created as an alternative solution to get the most out of idling hardware capacity in the data center.

In the same vein, managing your VDI printing environment can offer various paybacks toward cost cutting.

Issues with print maintenance and figuring out how to properly configure your printing environment has always been a huge struggle for system administrators.

Both set up environments will have its problems and advantages. Deciding upon how to configure your printing environment, whether it be through direct IP printing or print servers, really comes down to your needs.

Printing can be considered one of the most basic business processes, yet traditional printing still causes many problems in an organization. In the past, SaaS was used for functions which involved the Internet, including multi-function communications, portals, email marketing, file transfer etc.

Over the years, SaaS has grown across the board both for external and internal operations regarding workflow automation. SaaS Printing is transforming the way we print, work and manage our documents. Not only is it just a different deliver model, but it changes the way printing software is used, licensed, and improves end user experience and workflow in ways traditional printing cannot.