Bandwidth Control
Connection-based bandwidth control: ThinPrint prints with its own printer ports. You can set up individual bandwidth limits for each ThinPrint port. This allows you to define a maximum bandwidth for each connection (per external branch). This method offers significant advantages compared to simple user-based methods for limiting bandwidth. Your print data never exceeds the defined bandwidth, even if many of your employees print large documents at the same time.
Port configuration: You can connect any number of printers to a ThinPrint port, for example, all printers belonging to an external branch office. Port pooling to increase performance is also possible. This means that printers which you want to print via the same port are connected to multiple ports with the same configuration. There could then be, for example, three available ports as opposed to just one, making it also possible to process three print jobs at the same time.
Fig.: Setting the bandwidth limits
Limiting bandwidth: By default, bandwidth limits are not applied because they are not required for LANs or leased lines, for example. However, if this function is activated, for example, for external branches connected via DSL, values between 1600 bit/s and 1Mbit/s can be defined. Users can additionally reduce the bandwidth on the client side in order to increase application performance.
Adaptive speed: The rate of compression depends on the defined bandwidth. Compression is carried out automatically in a way that suits the relevant connection: higher compression for lower bandwidths since smaller files can be transmitted more quickly. If there is enough bandwidth, there is no need for a high rate of compression. This is regulated in the background with the convenient Adaptive Speed function.