You request a document or report to be printed.You walk to the printer, wait as someone else’s report finishes (expecting your report next), then another starts printing. Suddenly, a quick task has become a time waster. You could walk back to your desk, open up the printer status window and try to guess how long it will take before you should walk back to the printer but compromise productivity further? Shouldn’t your system automatically redirect documents to the least busy printer in the network at the moment? Not only that, it should even work and distribute between printers on different print servers and be able to recognize that a printer is out of paper or ink and re-direct accordingly. In this case it should even notify the support person of the failure.
The Solution
When you submit a request for a job to print, our system determines the best device to send it to in your pre-defined group of printers and then notifies you where the pages will print out. No waiting at the printer, no mystery. You've got the information you need to run your business when you right when need it.
This completely eliminates the reliance on individual users divvying up their document submissions, and results in an even workload among devices. In terms of cost savings, it will likely result in the elimination of extraneous printers on your network, insuring that your remaining printers are being used at the most cost efficient levels.
We’ve heard customers often complain about under-utilized devices and how hard it is to change users’ habits as far as which printer they submit documents to. We’ve been listening. That’s why with BARR output management products this becomes much less of a concern. They allow you to configure groups of printers that support load balancing and help you to utilize your print devices to the most cost-effective levels possible.
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Load Balancing
