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.
You can connect any number of printers to a ThinPrint port, for example, all printers of an external branch. 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 three available ports as opposed to just one, and it is also possible to process three print jobs at the same time.
Fig.: Setting the bandwidth limits
By default, bandwidth limits are not applied because they are not required for leased lines, for example. However, if this function is activated, for example, if external branches are connected via DSL, values of 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.
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.