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Network printer - Print direct or via shared printer on Server?

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http://serverfault.com – It has occurred to me that a workstation can connect to a printer in two ways: 1). Printing directly to the IP of the printer with the print driver installed locally. 2). Printing to a \Server\Printer1 share with the print queue residing on the server. Question is which way is preferred? I would assume that printing directly to a network printer rather than going through the server would be the most efficient from the point of view of network traffic. On the other hand I guess a server printer share would be easier to manage with the correct driver automatically being downloaded to the work (HowTos)

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Submitted by u85500 on 12/12/2012 – Made popular on 12/12/2012

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