Enterprise Environment
Advantages & Disadvantage of Enterprise Environment
In Enterprise License there will be One Master Server and Slave server software in each print server. The
Master Server will have SQL Server database and the Slave servers will have SQL Express database.
Advantages:
Users can print and collect their print jobs in any of the Solution enabled printers.
The printers will authenticate to the local print server.
Local printing will continue even if the Master Server is down
If local server is down, users can install printer driver from another print server and print.
Local printing is not affected if Master server is down or the link to the master server is down.
If the application gets corrupted or stops working in the local print server, printing gets automatically routed to another Secure Print server. (Kindly note that Windows Operating System should be up and running)
Centralized reporting.
Disadvantage:
Customer has to purchase the Enterprise License
Customer has to have an SQL server license
Centralize Environment
Advantages & Disadvantage of Centralize Environment
In Single Server License there will be One Main Server and Printing Client software in each print
server. Only the Main Server will have SQL Express database. There will be no database on the
individual print servers
Advantages:
Users can print and collect their print jobs in any of the enabled printers.
Customer need not purchase the Enterprise License.
If the local server is down, users can install printer driver from another print server and print.
Centralized reporting
Disadvantages:
The printers will authenticate to the main print server. If the main print server is down or not available, users cannot authentication on the printer. Print / Copy/ Scan functionality will not be available for the users.
Printing will stop if the Main Server is down.
Local Environment
Advantages & Disadvantage of Local Environment
In this setup, every server will work independently. Every Server will have its own SQL Express database.
Advantages:
Customer need not purchase the Enterprise License.
Customer need not invest in the SQL server license
Local reporting for each server.
Disadvantages:
Printing is limited to the local print server.
Users from one site cannot print and collect their printouts in another site.
Users who move from one site to another have to install printer driver and register their card in the new site.
No centralized reporting