Vasion Print is the SaaS solution for getting rid of your old on-prem print server while keeping all your printing secure on your internal network.
January 22, 2024
Vasion Print is the SaaS solution for getting rid of your old on-prem print server while keeping all your printing secure on your internal network.
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Overall Satisfaction with Vasion Print
In our organization we were moving servers and systems to the cloud. When it came time to move the old Windows Print Server, we decided on Vasion Print to fill the need of printer queue deployment and management. Vasion Print migrated our existing print queues, drivers, and configuration into their SaaS allowing us to deploy a single agent to manage all aspects of print management. This includes driver install(no more local admin rights needed for each user and local user account), printer queues, and default printing options per queue.
Pros
- Print jobs remain secure and never leave your local network, unlike with other cloud printing solutions.
- Since it manages creation of printing queues, all legacy apps continue to work with the same queue setups you have always used.
- You can deploy specified groupings of print queues to individuals, groups, or IP ranges.
- It ties in with AD and EntraID(formally AAD).
- Easy to understand concepts if you are familiar with traditional printing queues.
Cons
- Licensing is based on number of print queues. If you have multiple specific printing queues all going to the same printer, you have to pay for each queue.
- Limited sorting options for user name lookups. Not as robust as traditional AD tools for user management but they said they are working to improve this.
- They(Vasion) have several other "tools" they are working to integrate alongside Vasion Print. I am hoping basic functionality does not get drowned out by "add-ons."
- This was part of our investment comparison:
- Estimated costs of running dedicated Windows Print Server = $5000/per year with 50 printing queues. 5000/50=$100per queue a year cost.
- Vasion’s PrinterLogic estimated costs for 50 queues: $102/queue/year.
- Overall the costs are about the same but easier on IT to manage.
- Microsoft’s Universal Print requires a server as well. So if you have around 50 queues to manage the costs are about the same. If you have a lot more queues to manage, then the costs only go up with PrinterLogc's pricing model, past a certain threshold.
- The time savings for IT staff to not have to manage every user, on every local account, getting every different driver(we only used 2 drivers but still), over time payes for itself in other things IT time can be used on.
Vasion Print works for all network printers. Toshiba’s e-Bridge Global Print only works with Toshiba and some other high-end devices we would have to pay more for as a base cost unless we had all Toshibs unit in our fleet to begin with. Microsoft’s Universal Print also works for all network printers but still requires a print server which we did not want to run and maintain.
Do you think Vasion Print delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Vasion Print's feature set?
Yes
Did Vasion Print live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Vasion Print go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Vasion Print again?
Yes
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