Perfect Printing in VDI Environments

Why Desktop Virtualization?

Increasingly, organizations are focusing their IT strategy on desktop virtualization. Operating systems, applications and user settings are provided individually from computing centers for staff members. Users access their individual desktop environment as soon as they log their end device into the corporate network, whether it’s a PC, notebook, thin client or smartphone.
 

The virtual desktop concept offers organizations many benefits:

• Reduced administration thanks to centralized desktop management
• Simple provision of applications and faster support 
• Staff members have whatever their end device, access to their individual desktops, whether they are working remotely or locally
• Lower client-side hardware costs and reduced CO2 emissions with the use of maintenance-friendly thin clients

Printing with ThinPrint in a VDI environment with terminal servers and central print server

ThinPrint’s complete print concept for virtual desktops

Without doubt, desktop virtualization offers many advantages, however one aspect should not be ignored – printing. This is a big challenge, especially in virtual, distributed environments, and printing should always be included in your virtualization strategy.

With ThinPrint .print you and your VDI environment can benefit from comprehensive print support, regardless of whether you have a print server or not. 

• Always the right printer: Thanks to the AutoConnect component your staff members always connect with the right local and network printers. Using group policies, IT departments can decide which printers are available for which users or desktops.

• Session-in-Session printing: Even if your staff members first connect with their virtual desktop and then with an application on the terminal server such as XenApp, they will still access the correct printer from the session first opened. 
   
• DRIVER FREE PRINTING: Only the ThinPrint Output Gateway virtual printer driver is installed on images or templates. Original printer drivers are only used where it makes sense and they are easy to administer, such as on a central print server. 
   
• Connecting with branch offices: With Virtual Channel Gateway, virtual desktops can also be used with a central print server in masked networks. 

In addition to the features mentioned above, you can take advantage of the many benefits that ThinPrint technology offers such as print data compression, bandwidth control or SSL encryption of your print data.

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