Question : Problem: Citrix Access Essentials Best Practices for Remote Printing

I have a head office and 6 remote offices. I am planning on installing a Citrix (Access Essentials) Server at the head office and to connect all remote users to the head office via this server. (Around 20 - 30 Users).

I am worried about printing (mostly speed) as my remote sites will need to print colour brochures. Can anyone advise what the best practices are for setting this up and recommend anything that would make printing quicker. ( Should I install a local print server box at each office?)

Not really sure, please advise?

Thank You in advance

Answer : Problem: Citrix Access Essentials Best Practices for Remote Printing

What I'd do is put in hp printer servers at the remote location.  They operate on port 9100, i believe tcp.

next, configure the router there (at the remote office) to redirect requests like this:
remote ip, port 9100 -> ip of 1st printer in remote office port 9100
remote ip, port 9101 -> ip of 2nd printer in remote office port 9100
remote ip, port 9102 -> ip of 3rd printer in remote office port 9100

Now on the citrix server, add the printers, choose local add a tcpip port of the remote office - it will configure them all to port 9100.
Go in and change the port for printer2 to 9101 and the port for printer3 to 9102

Now turn off printer redirection on the citrix box or in the client software.

This is how I have maintained reliable printing for two years.  No problems.

If you VPN the sites together using fortinet routers, EVEN better and EVEN safter cause the router SCANS the traffic over the VPN connection
and coming in from the internet for viruses and malware.  I am a reseller of fortinet routers, they rock!

-gsgi