The Transparent Plug n' Play Printing Solution

Provide superior document handling and print performance for your business with triCerat's ScrewDrivers. Bring an end to the hassle and aggravation of managing print drivers. Prevent the printing problems that too often lead to increased support costs and the unnecessary consumption of time and effort due to large, burdensome native print drivers.

Invest in the standalone print management solution that will eliminate user frustration and loss of work hours when all print jobs come to a halt.

ScrewDrivers is engineered for remote corporate Windows application delivery environments. Whether you’re using Terminal Services, virtualized desktops, or XP Remote Desktop, ScrewDrivers ensures the user that the correct printer and printer attributes are ready to handle complex remote printing requests.

Some business printing solutions try to slide by, imitating a lowest-common denominator printer driver. Other solutions use programs that result in an overly complicated management system that confuse rather than clarify remote printing to the user. Along with these complexities, these other print solutions sometimes use various formats such as EMF or PDF to achieve printing. ScrewDrivers can overcome the printing limitations of these other solutions regardless of the application or printer driver.

ScrewDrivers is such a simple plug n’ play solution, you can install it and forget that printer problems ever existed. With configuration and management this simple, you can provide users with problem-free remote desktop printing from any application to any printer, using any printer setting, all while going about your day or doing nothing at all.

Features:

• Prints to any available local client printer without administrator intervention
• triMeta print job format
• 32 and 64-bit compatibility
• Seamless print streaming
• Windows XP remote desktop connection support

 Benefits:

• Removes printer drivers from your Citrix and Terminal Servers
• Retains familiar printer names
• Increases print speed
• Decreases print bandwidth w/compression, streaming, and bandwidth control
• Reduces printer support cost and effort
• Boosts productivity and organization by providing seamless printing
• Increases server performance and reliability by eliminating print spooler crashes
• Speeds printing by compressing printer files

Supported Environments: Citrix XenApp (aka Citrix Presentation Server), Citrix XenDesktop, VMware VDI, Microsoft Windows Terminal Services, Microsoft XP Remote Desktop

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The following resources are available for Tricerat ScrewDrivers

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Whitepapers

triCerat's ScrewDrivers v4: Printing Unleashed

Printing is a complex process with many possible points of failure. The application, user, operating system, and print device must all work in conjunction to produce the expected physical output. Configuring and administering a printer and print process in a Microsoft Windows workstation environment is a complex task. Printing in a server-based computing (Microsoft Terminal Server, Citrix Metaframe/Presentation Server, Ericom WebConnect) environment causes a number of additional problems. In this paper, a solution from triCerat called ScrewDrivers is presented which solves many of the administrative problems related to printing in such an environment, while also providing users with a better-quality experience.

In Depth Look at Printing In Terminal Services Environments

Although the resurgence of terminal environments in the workplace simplified the management of end user systems and applications, it was not designed to properly support a very critical function: printing. Most end users email one another attachments or share drives on the network, however, many of them will also print emails or documents for future reference. Workplace documents do not yet fully exist in soft format; end users still require hard copies. Terminal Services complicates printing because it removes much of the printing process from the client computers. So, what are your options for supporting printing for multiple printers across multiple platforms?

The Facts About EMF Printing

In cases where auto-creation of print drivers fail or loading of drivers is not an option in a Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 environment, a “universal print driver” has been included. This addition uses EMF or “Enhanced Meta File” format. EMF is a 32 bit intermediary image format developed by Microsoft as the successor to the 16-bit WMF. EMF was once widely used as a work-around for some graphic issues w/in certain applications.