Designed to help customers put print spooling into small offices without the trouble of maintaining a server, the ISD300 Intelligent Spooling Device accomplishes a lot more.
When it comes to saving IT time, power and space, every bit helps, even the
choice of print servers.
One print server, the ISD300 Intelligent Spooling Device from Germany-based SEH Technology, is a .5-by-19-inch Linux-based
box, running at a modest 12 watts, rather than the over 100 watts of typical
print servers, suitable for small, medium and large companies and for branch
offices, the company said.
"About three years ago," SEH
Technology CEO Mike Majewski said, "a
customer asked us about creating a print spooling appliance—a stand-alone box
that takes the print spooling functions off a Windows or Linux server. The
original purpose was for small remote offices that don't want to set up a
Windows server and have to maintain it—do security updates, patches, etc.—just
to do spooling."
One unintentional benefit helping the ISD300 garner fresh attention is its
comparatively low power requirement. "The folks in Germany
are real particular about power consumption," Majewski said. "This
comes from the fact that we generally make cards that slip into the back of
printers, so we have low power to work with. So when we designed the ISD box,
one of the goals was to make it as energy-efficient as possible."
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