White Paper Abstract:
Through the utilization of a central print server the Driver Free Printing technology can also be used for
both printing to non-Windows devices and for centralizing all printer drivers on one machine. The .print
component needed here is called V-Layer. You install V-Layer together with .print Engine on the central print Server (see illustration). ThinPrint Output Gateway is installed as the only printer driver on the computers sending the print jobs.
If V-Layer is the only ThinPrint .print function you wish to use, you don't need to install anything on the client side. If, additionally, you wish for the print data to be compressed, streamed and/or encrypted, then you will need to install .print Client – a minimum of one per branch office. In this case .print Engine sends the print jobs to .print Clients that are installed on Thin Clients, local print servers, Gateway appliances or (standalone) network printers - irrespective of their operating systems.