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UniPrint Server 6.0
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General Information
General Information
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Reliability
Reliability
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 Automated Recovery
 Automated Recovery
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The UniPrint automated driver and printer recovery allows for the fastest recovery time in the event of a critical system failure. |
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Document Rendering
Document Rendering
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UniPrint, the PDF-based print solution, provides the best match when compared with original application output.
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Support Options
Support Options
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Phone
Phone
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Your UniPrint support package entitles you to full telephone-based support with a fully trained UniPrint Support Analyst. With UniPrint opening a support incident is just a phone call away.
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E-mail
E-mail
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If you have a quick question sometimes the best way to get a quick response is to e-mail the people who know best.
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Web
Web
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The UniPrint Web forum is monitored by our best Support Analysts and Developers, as well as many UniPrint customers with extensive experience.
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Usability
Usability
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Minimal User Retraining
Minimal User Retraining
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The intuitive design of UniPrint creates a standard printing experience for all users, regardless of client side hardware. This avoids retraining, and simplifies printing to ANY printer by providing a standard experience.
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Configuration Management
Configuration Management
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With features such as group policy configuration, and per-user preferences, UniPrint allows each user to set the exact settings they need to print at their best. Most other solutions provide only machine defaults. |
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Security
Security
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Encrypted Transfer
Encrypted Transfer
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Like most solutions, UniPrint supports all RDP and ICA encryption levels.
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Savings
Savings
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Bandwidth Savings
Bandwidth Savings
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When compared across many sample documents, UniPrint rates the best for print job compression, saving precious bandwidth over slower WAN connections.
See "Technical Information" below for more details.
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Administrative Savings
Administrative Savings
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When considering key factors such as deployment and configuration management, UniPrint rates the highest with the simplest configuration and out-of-the-box functionality.
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Pricing
Pricing
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When comparing license models and per-server costs, UniPrint ranks as the least expensive solution to implement.
*Prices may vary by reseller.
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Technical Information
Technical Information
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Administrative Experience
Administrative Experience
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Requirements
Requirements
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Server Software
Server Software
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Of the solutions reviewed, all require the installation of server-side software making deployment options a critical factor when selecting a Universal Print Solution.
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Client Software
Client Software
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Of the solutions reviewed, all require the installation of client-side software making deployment options a critical factor when selecting a Universal Print Solution.
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Bandwidth (Ranked)
Bandwidth (Ranked)
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In a random sampling of 7 print jobs, other solutions achieved sizes of about 2.5 megabytes. UniPrint offers a bandwidth savings of nearly 90% at 329 kilobytes.
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Embedded Fonts
Embedded Fonts
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Embedded fonts are critical for accurate printouts. ThinPrint does not support font embedding; and use of font embedding in Citrix PS4 increased print job file size. Subset embedding allows for optimal file sizes and content preservation.
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Text and Images
Text and Images
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A large Word document containing text and many types of images is commonplace in many enterprises, UniPrint offers an 84% reduction in transfer size over the leading competitors.
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Slide Presentations
Slide Presentations
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Slide Presentations often contain many embedded images, causing EMF-based print jobs to drastically increase in size to nearly 8.5 megabytes, when compared with UniPrint's 0.4 megabytes, a savings of 95%. |
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Photo Quality Images
Photo Quality Images
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By accurately rendering images with JPEG compression UniPrint can achieve bandwidth savings upwards of 91%.
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Compatibility
Compatibility
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64-bit
64-bit
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UniPrint offers 64-bit print solutions to ease the transition from old 32-bit printer drivers to modern 64-bit architectures. The Citrix Universal Print Driver solution is not available for 64-bit platforms.
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Document Portability
Document Portability
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By rendering print jobs using the Adobe PDF standard, UniPrint print jobs can be saved or distributed to any client platform, creating a truly Universal Print Solution. All other solutions use EMF formatting which is only available to Microsoft Windows clients.
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Client Availability
Client Availability
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Java Client
Java Client
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UniPrint's PDF format when combined with Java technology allows for the most portable print jobs rendered.
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Mac OS Client
Mac OS Client
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Mac OS X has a quickly expanding client base and requires support for printer drivers which may not be available to Windows servers. UniPrint's client for Macintosh relieves this headache.
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Deployment
Deployment
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Server
Server
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Local Installation
Local Installation
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All reviewed software solutions can be installed locally.
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Active Directory Deployment
Active Directory Deployment
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The UniPrint MSI installation package fully supports software management through Active Directory.
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Client
Client
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Local Installation
Local Installation
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All reviewed client software can be installed locally.
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Web Interface
Web Interface
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All reviewed client software supports deployment of an ActiveX client through the Citrix and Microsoft Terminal Services Web Interfaces.
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Active Directory Deployment
Active Directory Deployment
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The UniPrint MSI installation package fully supports software management through Active Directory.
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Automatic Upgrades
Automatic Upgrades
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Only UniPrint supports automated client updates at connection time.
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Configuration
Configuration
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Localized
Localized
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All solutions support per-machine configurations.
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Regionalized
Regionalized
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With Active Directory integration UniPrint can quickly be configured to support every user's specific needs based on their location, department, business-role or even continent.
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Group Policy Control
Group Policy Control
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The same technology used by Microsoft to secure and configure your terminal server can now be used to configure UniPrint across multiple servers and users, quickly and easily. Group Policy control also allows automated configuration of new UniPrint installations.
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Roaming User Preferences
Roaming User Preferences
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Every user's needs are slightly different, and only UniPrint can preserve their individual configuration preferences across multiple servers and sessions.
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Features
Features
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Bandwidth Control
Bandwidth Control
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All solutions reviewed support bandwidth throttling; allowing an administrator to better share traffic among hundreds of users, applications and services.
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Active Directory Integration
Active Directory Integration
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Using Active Directory deployment and configuration, UniPrint can be installed and customized on a Terminal/Citrix server or client PC without ever physically connecting to it.
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Reliability
Reliability
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Automated Recovery
Automated Recovery
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The UniPrint automated driver and printer recovery allows for the fastest recovery time in the event of a critical system failure.
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Session Control
Session Control
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Features available only to UniPrint such as delayed job management, session transient preferences, and automatic connection type detection ensure print systems are consistently available to users.
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User Experience
User Experience
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Rendering
Rendering
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Image Support
Image Support
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UniPrint offers several types of image compression and the ability to automatically choose the best type for your print job, ensuring optimal job size and quality. With this technology image intensive jobs were compressed by UniPrint up to 89% more efficiently.
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Overlapping
Overlapping
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When compressing overlapped images, ScrewDrivers was unable to accurately render the test images. UniPrint, and ThinPrint achieved comparable results. |
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Transparent
Transparent
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When compressing transparent images UniPrint achieved compression sizes up to 85% smaller than all competitors. |
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Font Support
Font Support
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Third-Party Fonts
Third-Party Fonts
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According to ThinPrint documentation font embedding is not supported. This creates a heavy burden when managing font sets across client machines with unique software versions.
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Licensed Fonts
Licensed Fonts
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According to ThinPrint documentation font embedding is not supported. This creates a heavy burden when managing font sets across client machines with unique software versions.
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Options
Options
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