{"id":997,"date":"2022-08-22T06:30:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T10:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uniprint.net\/?p=997\/"},"modified":"2022-09-05T01:13:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T05:13:02","slug":"system-administrators-print-workarounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uniprint.net\/en\/system-administrators-print-workarounds\/","title":{"rendered":"System Administrators – Do Printing Workarounds Really Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Print System Administration<\/h3>\n

Many of us system administrators are creative at coming up with methods to solve day to day technical challenges including printing issues in our organizations.<\/p>\n

And why not?<\/p>\n

After all, it is part of our job and value added to the company.<\/p>\n

Case in point \u2013 many system administrators have told me they use workarounds to solve their Citrix <\/a>printer issues, which lead me to wonder if those workarounds actually made their lives easier and provided enhanced user experience in the long term.<\/p>\n

These days, many third-party printing solutions are available in the market.<\/p>\n

When deciding whether to continue using your own method or deploying a third-party printing solution, it is crucial to consider a few things \u2026 or else we are not doing our job.<\/p>\n

Do Printing Workaround Really Work?<\/h3>\n

Printer Driver Incompatibilities:<\/strong>\u00a0In a small company with simple IT settings, printing workarounds may get the job done, but for larger organizations with a complex IT environment, workarounds may not solve all their printing issues.<\/p>\n

For example<\/strong>, some drivers may only work with 32-bit or 64-bit software, while others just work with 16-bit.<\/p>\n

Now let\u2019s add the ongoing need to add new users, install new drivers, and add BYODs, and just imagine all the printer driver incompatibility issues you\u2019ll be facing.<\/p>\n

Remote Printing Problems:<\/strong>\u00a0Remote users often can\u2019t get their document to print, even if the print job seems to spool correctly.<\/p>\n

More often than not, system administrators will not think it is a high priority problem if their remote users need to wait 20 minutes for their documents to be printed.<\/p>\n

But all these small issues add up to loss of productivity and agony over time for both users and admins.<\/p>\n

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Interested in learning more about printing solutions? Check out this free whitepaper on remote site print servers<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Printer Mapping<\/strong>\u00a0Problems:<\/strong>\u00a0Another common problem users may come across is associated with printer mapping in the back end.<\/p>\n

In this situation, users who are mobile, tend to work with different printers in various locations.<\/p>\n

The issue here is that users usually end up having too many printers to choose from and do not know which one to use.<\/p>\n

This then leads to them calling the IT team for a quick fix or workaround that takes time to solve.<\/p>\n

Any user will tell you they lose productivity while waiting around for their Citrix printing problems to be fixed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Daily Printer Maintenance:<\/strong> For any large organization that has a big user base, there will always be at least one printer that fails or breaks down daily.<\/p>\n

Daily Citrix printing problems get in a user\u2019s way, and yet the problems are too often overlooked.<\/p>\n

These malfunctions can come from the printer driver, print queue, printer router, print server, you name it.<\/p>\n

As a result of these printing issues, IT will end up having to remap their printers, test for incompatibilities, and even relearn different interfaces.<\/p>\n

These are all important issues to consider when choosing between workarounds and third-party printing solutions.<\/p>\n

The latter takes away the mundane manual process of the former, allows for centralized printer mapping, enables more reliable remote printing, simplifies printer driver management<\/a>, enhances server stability, streamlines workflow, and saves everyone a lot of time.<\/p>\n

You may want to test it out and compare it to your existing methods.<\/p>\n

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