But you also have to make sure that you’re not adding another layer of software or hardware that could complicate your print environment and potentially introduce more problems.

You actually need to look beyond VMware for a solution. If your VMware View printing is slow, the usual tweaks and optimizations will only take you so far. That means overall network performance takes a hit. That doesn’t just mean slow printing in VMware. As they travel over the WAN and back to reach the endpoint device (which might be located just a few feet from the end user), they consume a disproportionate amount of a precious finite resource: bandwidth. Not to mention the fact that the print jobs themselves can be data-heavy. The shortest-and quickest-route between two points is always a direct one, so when print jobs are forced to ping-pong between multiple nodes across the virtual network, delays are pretty much inevitable.

Anything less can result in painfully slow printing.Īnother potential cause of slow VMware printing is the high WAN overhead that’s needed to relay print jobs to the endpoint device. Fluid, fast and reliable enterprise printing requires the perfect alignment of workstation, driver and printer. Any user on the server could end up being associated with a printer based on a broad set of criteria-a lack of precision than can prove especially problematic in large and distributed environments. One of the big reasons is that virtual environments aren’t always able to deliver the targeted deployments you need. Given the very nature of virtual environments, any number of issues can be at the root of slow printing in VMware View. So when you tally all the hours your end users have spent waiting for documents to print, you can see the negative effect it might have on your organization’s bottom line. VMware printing in particular can be a huge productivity bottleneck.

And if you’re using a virtual solution like VMware, you’re aware that speed isn’t one of its strong suits. Time, as we all know very well, is money.

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