High Availability Printing
When a print server goes down, the entire printing operation often grinds to a halt — with tangible consequences for productivity and costs. Since Windows Server 2012, it's no longer possible to build classic print server clusters, removing an important safeguard for enterprise printing. Windows Server 2016 does protect against hardware failures, but in practice, hardware issues are rarely the actual root cause of printing problems.
Our free white paper "High Availability Printing" shows why true high availability for printing requires more than standard server solutions — and how organizations can actually achieve it with the right print management software.
What's Inside the White Paper
- The Weak Spot in the Windows Approach: Why Windows Server 2012/2016 only covers hardware failures, while software issues like faulty drivers, spooler errors, and network disruptions are the most common causes of downtime
- Real-World Survey Results: Why nearly half of surveyed organizations consider print high availability important — yet take the wrong measures to achieve it
- Server- and Client-Side Failover with ThinPrint: How print jobs are automatically redirected to other servers in the event of a server failure, without interruption
- Boosting Performance with Load Balancing: How print jobs can be evenly distributed across multiple servers — for shorter wait times and more efficient resource use
- Maintenance Without Downtime: How individual servers can be switched into maintenance mode without disrupting ongoing print operations
Ready for Failure-Proof Printing?
Whether you're a large enterprise or a mid-sized business: if you want to avoid print outages, lost print jobs, and costly downtime, this white paper delivers concrete solutions — clearly explained and directly applicable to real-world enterprise network printing.