Shared printers in LAN via wireless connection

[FuzMic]

Hi guys

I know many of you have warned me not to use Wireless connection to do Access but I have no choice and is prepared to live with the limitations of Begin/Comit. I have reduced the error on corruption of data in the shared main data.

My problem now remaining is to send data to the LAN printers by wireless.

In each of the win tabloid, lan printers at tabloid are installed and printing of data kept at the tabloid is sent to the printers by wireless. Sometimes printing request fail to reach when a number of tabloids are competing for the use of the printers.

I am now considering the same LAN printers to be installed at the LAN PC as SHARED PRINTERS to be used by the tabloid. This way the spooler at the LAN PC will control the printing. Do you think this will improve the situation?

 

[CJ_London]

I would expect it to, but it should not be too much effort to try it and see

 

[isladogs]

I know many of you have warned me not to use Wireless connection to do Access

That warning relates to data entry.
If you are just viewing or printing records (i.e. not in any way trying to update data) then it doesn't risk affecting / corrupting the database.

In other words, if you can get it to work for that purpose, there isn't really an issue with wireless

Of course, it may be a big IF

 

[FuzMic]

Always appreciate all your feedback,

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[The_Doc_Man]

The same SMB protocol that allows file sharing also controls how you talk to printers - but there IS a difference to be considered.

If you directly talk to the printer, it takes data at a particular rate depending on its buffering capacity. If you talk to the LAN PC and let it manage the printer directly (if that is possible), then you can transfer the file to be printed and let the local printer queue manager keep things going. The window of opportunity for the "LAN PC queue manager" to lose a connection while transferring files is smaller than the window for going directly to the printer, particularly if said printer is going to be shared by others.

Older printers might have a couple of pages of buffer space, so they have to "stall" your transfers until they do enough printing to free up some buffers. Printers connected to a small wireless adapter fall into the same category. More modern big-office printers, however, often have enough "oomph" to include their own local disk for data staging and a rudimentary O/S to do queue management.

Therefore, the FIRST thing you should do is to determine which kind of printer you have. If it is a modern, self-buffering printer with local staging disk, don't spend too much time on trying to do anything fancy. BUT if it is an older printer, then using your LAN PC as a queue manager is not wrong.

 

[FuzMic]

Yes friend for the caring in your advice

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