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Troubleshooting ThinPrint in VMware View

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:00:50 +0000

VMware OEMs a sub-set of the .Print Server Engine full-blown product. Many people think ThinPrint is a VMware owned product and/or feature, but it is not. ThinPrint is a German company that stands on its own and was founded in 1999. Their .print generic drivers can be found in a range of strategic partnerships with VMware, Citrix, Fuji Xerox, HP, Lexmark, Microsoft, Wyse, and others. ThinPrint has managed to embed their ThinPrint agent into a range of devices, from Thin Clients to Printers and the company reign almost alone in its market segment.

Printing Architectures for VDI – Part 2

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:03:29 +0000

Some articles get stuck and never get published. I wrote this one a while back and for different reasons the publishing was delayed. However, while reviewing some of the new features in VMware View 5.0 I noticed that the Location Based Printing feature has been extended.

Printing Architectures for VDI

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:56:00 +0000

Printing discussions have been a constant during my customer engagements, and generally speaking I noticed that there are misconceptions about printing capabilities delivered with VMware View, ThinPrint and Active Directory Group Policies. In addition to that, there are always those questions from the field about how printing should be handled in a VDI environment. What to do with print queues? Should print drivers be deployed to virtual desktops?