MANAGE CENTRALLY. PRINT LOCALLY. STAY INDEPENDENT.
With steadyPRINT HYBRID, you combine the advantages of a centrally managed printing environment with the performance of local printing. Printers, connections, and drivers are configured centrally, while print jobs are processed directly at each location.
Ideal for branch offices, construction sites, showrooms, and other decentralized locations without their own print server: You reduce the local server infrastructure, relieve the load on your WAN connections, and enable reliable printing—even offline.
Central and local: the best of both worlds.
Not every location needs its own print server. With steadyPRINT HYBRID, you can centrally manage your printing environment and make the necessary printers available at each location as local IP printers.
Configuration is handled centrally via steadyPRINT. Printer information, settings, and the necessary drivers are stored and managed centrally. Once set up, the HYBRID printers at each location operate independently and process print jobs directly on-site.
This allows you to benefit from centralized administration without making the actual printing process dependent on a central print server.
Especially at remote locations with limited bandwidth, print data can place an unnecessary strain on the WAN connection. When print jobs are processed centrally, data must first be transferred to the print server and then back to the printer at the remote location.
steadyPRINT HYBRID shortens this path: The print job is processed locally, and the data is transferred directly to the printer on-site.
This reduces network traffic and ensures fast and reliable print output—even in virtualized work environments such as Citrix, VMware, or Microsoft RDP.
Print locally instead of sending data over the WAN.
Print even if the connection is lost.
Once set up, HYBRID printers operate on-site independently of the central print server. Since print jobs are processed locally, a permanent connection to the central infrastructure is not required for the actual printing process.
If the WAN connection or the central print server is temporarily down, users can continue to print on the local printers that have already been set up.
This increases the availability of the printing environment and is particularly advantageous in situations where document output must function reliably even in the event of disruptions.
With the HYBRID Driver Store, administrators can centrally determine which printer drivers are used in the environment. In addition to the drivers available in the Windows Driver Store, you can also deploy your own, tested drivers.
New or updated drivers can be distributed centrally and updated on end devices. This allows you to maintain control over the driver versions in use and ensures a consistent and reliably manageable printing environment.
Printer drivers under centralized control.
Provisioning without manual effort.
Administrators integrate the printers into the HYBRID environment and assign them specifically to users, groups, or computers. The steadyPRINT Agent then handles the deployment to the respective end devices.
Changes to drivers or IP addresses can also be made centrally and automatically pushed to the clients. Users can also manage the printers available to them independently, without needing to contact IT support for every change.
This reduces recurring administrative tasks and eases the burden on IT during day-to-day operations.
Having dedicated print servers at small branch offices and remote locations incurs costs and requires installation, maintenance, updates, and monitoring.
With steadyPRINT HYBRID, you can eliminate the need for dedicated print servers at these locations while still centrally managing the printing environment.
This reduces local infrastructure and the effort required for operation and maintenance—especially in companies and organizations with many distributed locations.
Fewer servers. Less effort.
Designed for decentralized structures.
Whether it’s a branch office, construction site, showroom, retail location, or satellite office: steadyPRINT HYBRID is ideal for any location where local printing is required but having a dedicated print server isn’t practical or cost-effective.
New locations and printers can be centrally integrated into the existing environment and managed uniformly. At the same time, the actual print processing remains on-site.
This allows even a large, distributed printing environment to be efficiently managed without having to operate additional server infrastructure at every location.
- No need for an on-site print server
- Centralized management of printers, connections, and drivers
- Local processing of print jobs
- Reduced load on WAN connections
- Printing even during connection or server outages
- High performance at remote locations
- Controlled driver deployment via the HYBRID Driver Store
- Automated deployment via the steadyPRINT Agent
- Reduced administration and support efforts
- Less local server infrastructure and lower operating costs
The advantages of steadyPRINT HYBRID.
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