Printing is fundamental.
Users want to be able to print easily and reliably. Economics still drives the use of shared network printers, and you get the best flexibility and reliability by connecting printers to the LAN through a standalone print server. While print servers are pretty basic, you've got to get the fundamentals right to keep both users and network managers happy. We gathered a group of eight print servers designed to meet the needs of a LAN or subnet with about 2 to 100 client PCs. The value of standalone network print servers is often overlooked because every NOS on the market lets you attach a printer to a PC or server and share it with the other users on the network.