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echo465
Jun 3, 2007
I like ice cream
What do large Microsoft shops do for printing?

The setup I've inherited has about 150 printers on two file/print servers, with most printers having a different driver on each server. For example, a department's HPLJ4050 might have the 4050 PCL5e driver on server 1, and the HP universal driver on server 2.

My first instinct is a shiny new 3-node (virtualized) print cluster, but print clustering is supported only for failover, not load balancing. Is this really the pinnacle of Windows print-serving technology these days? There's got to be a better way.

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