ThinPrint, provider of the world's leading print
management software, is turning its focus to high availability printing in its
latest version, ThinPrint 11. The new ThinPrint Engine resolves one of the
major issues resulting from the introduction of Windows Server 2012.
Printing is still a decisive
factor for many business processes. All the more worrying is that since Windows
Server 2012 and the loss of print server clustering, an important safeguard is
absent. With Microsoft Hyper-V as Microsoft's solution for Windows Server 2012
and Windows Server 2016, customers are only protected against hardware
failures. Hardware, however, only accounts for a small fraction of printing
errors. As a result, businesses suffer longer than necessary downtime and a
loss of productivity with common printing errors. This includes printer driver
conflicts, connection problems and slowly reacting spoolers. Hyper-V also
offers no solution for load balancing printers.
Help is available with
ThinPrint 11. In addition to existing features for fully optimized printing,
the new version provides high availability. ThinPrint 11 offers both failover
and load balancing, for the server and client side, within a single, easily
integrated and managed product. ThinPrint delivers a comprehensive solution,
and one that customers can easily implement.
ThinPrint 11's new features
in detail include:
- Failsafe Servers:
With ThinPrint 11, IT can group two or more servers together. If one server
fails then another server from the group automatically takes over the print
process, ensuring users can continue to print.
- Load Balancing for Servers:
Users are dynamically distributed among the print servers in a group, resulting
in far higher performance. Complicated assignment of which printer should map
back to which server is no longer necessary.
- Flexible Server Maintenance: The
IT department can place print servers into maintenance mode. Without any users
being affected, printers are automatically connected to another print server in
the background. Nightshifts for IT administrators are no longer necessary, as
they can carry out maintenance work during standard working hours, without any
interruption to users and printing.
- Client Reliability: If
a ThinPrint Client fails, another ThinPrint Client with the same configuration
automatically replaces it.
- Client Load Balancing:
ThinPrint Clients with identical configuration can also be used on the client
side for load balancing. This measure also contributes to achieving the highest
performance levels.
"Printing remains for many
companies a very important component of their business processes," said
Thorsten Hesse, chief product officer at ThinPrint. "This
year, we are firmly placing the focus on high availability, failover and load
balancing, for both server and clients, all together in one easy-to-implement
product. High availability for printing has never been this wide-ranging and
easy."
ThinPrint 11 will be
available in the third quarter.
For more information about
ThinPrint 11 visit: www.thinprint.com/thinprint-11