MicroNugget: How to Use ThinPrint

In this video, Greg Shields covers the ThinPrint functionality in VMware View 5. As offices virtualize more and more resources, they experience increased flexibility and functionality, but it also comes with higher levels of complication. ThinPrint is a handy tool that ensures you can access both local and remote printers.

If you’re in an office environment where you’re interacting with virtual machines hundreds or thousands of miles away, printing can become an issue due to network latency.

You don’t want to deal with sending print jobs from your desk all the way to the virtual machine, only to have that machine send it thousands of miles back to the printer that’s sitting right next to you.

ThinPrint economizes the situation by allowing you to send a print job directly from your ThinClient to a local or network printer, substantially speeding up the process.

Greg illustrates the theory behind this concept.

Start learning with CBT Nuggets: