I will be setting up a new PS 4.5 farm next month (running on Windows
2003 R2 Standard Edition) and I want to set up the best & cleanest
printer setup. We have a mix of HP, Toshiba and Minolta network printers
and a handful of locally attached HP (and Dell printers.

I have a print server (also running 2003 R2) that has all the printers
defined.

I'm curious as to experience and opinions of the latest (PS 4.5) UPD vs.
3rd party drivers like ScrewDriver & Print-It.

Also, any idea as to the cost of these 3rd party programs? This would be
out of plan and hard to justify, so cost becomes a big issue. We have
the one print server , 2 Citrix servers (35-40 concurrent Citrix
users)and about 30 "fat clients" that do a domain logon, but don't
access the Citrix server. These are mapped to the Print Server printers...

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Regards,
Hank Arnold
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Directory Services