A question that often comes up when deploying a VDI solution is "How do you manage printing?" As your virtual desktop is now effectively running on a server in the data center, does that mean that when you hit the print button, your print job comes out there? What about printer drivers? Typically, your desktop has the driver installed for the printer that is nearest to you, or it might be a locally-attached printer. Does that mean you need to install every possible printer driver on to your virtual desktop machines? Luckily, the answer to these questions is no, and, in this section, we will briefly cover how VMware Horizon View manages printing.
Bundled within Horizon View is an OEM virtual printing solution, ThinPrint, for which a company called Cortado is the OEM. ThinPrint allows your end users to print either to a network-based...