Macs using hosted printers

[lehmanp00]

We use Windows servers to host all of our printers. Our Macs use LPD to connect to those printers. With the release of Windows Server 2012 I saw this:

The LPD and LPR Services are deprecated starting with Windows Server 2012. Eventually, they will be completely removed from the product, but they are still available in this release.

Link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831468.aspx

We audit all printing with Papercut. We do not advertise printers in AD. Is hosting printers on a OS X server becoming our only option soon? How do you handle printing with Macs?

[donmontalvo]

Linux?

http://www.papercut.com/system-requirements/#primaryServerReqs

[ernstcs]

We are still pretty old school here, but transitioning. Printers have a DHCP reservation and we do direct IP printing since I've never had Windows print queues work well, it usually required the user to authenticate AGAIN when they wanted to print.

Now we have a dynamic DNS system in place so now we'll be creating dynamic DNS entries for each printer so no matter where it goes on the network it gets the same DNS name update automatically when it plugs in based on MAC address. We will then use the DNS entries in the IP printing record and put those in the JSS and push with policy. The kicker is that 10.8, 10.8.1, and the last version 10.8.2 beta didn't recognize DNS, would say invalid or incomplete address. 10.7 and 10.6 see them fine.

So once it's fixed in ML we'll move ahead doing it that way. If you're using a system like Papercut or others that might not help.