UniPrint 1

[30362]

Does anyone here have any experience, good or bad, with Uniprint and home users?

 

[SeanFlynn]

I wouldn't spend the money if you are using MetaFrame XP Feature Release 2. I have quite a few clients that have pulled Uniprint and Screwdrivers out after FR2 came out. FR2 handles client printers very well.

As far as Uniprint goes, I can't honestly give you a review, I haven't personally used it.

SeanFlynn

 

[30362]

We are MF1.8 SP3 and have no plans to change due to some specialized apps we run that aren't supported on XP...

 

[yoz2002]

We tested UNIPrint and it all worked fine 'til we checked the size of the print jobs being generated... A quote from the findings...

"While UniPrint has been observed to reduce WAN traffic when printing it generates a print job observed at 19 times the size of the original."

(This was tested last Autumn with XP 1.0 FR1)

 

[30362]

Yikes, how do they claim to reduce WAN traffic when the job is significantly larger?

Wouldn't home users, connected via dialup, see a huge hiccup?

 

[yoz2002]

In the tests we did we had a 70+Kb word document (full of graphics) which generated a spooled print job of 1096Kb from the Citrix box back to the client.

When we used UNIPrint it delivered a compressed PDF file back to the client of around 60Kb, massive reduction in WAN traffic but the client then took over a minute to render this and spooled a 19Mb file..

Reduced bandwidth use but didn't really reduce the time to print. Like your other contributor we then got a hold of FR2 and life became simple!

Hope this helps.