You don’t really need a print server in your situation, given the small number of printers you’ve described. You’ve justified it yourself. Nobody is forcing you to use one 🙂 But in general, people use print servers to streamline client deployment, offer central management and to ease print driver maintenance. It’s all about scale.
I’m afraid there is no “Off”-switch for WSD specifically for Printer discovery in Windows Server As an alternative to disabling the “Function Discovery Provider Host” service, you could change the following outbound rules’ Action to Deny, in the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security: This will specifically block WSD and WSDAPI discovery events If your print … Read more
On a HP4050 the First Page Out is rated at 15 second minimum. This number does not count if the printer is in sleep mode before. Per the service manual 17 pages per minute (ppm) 100 MHz RISC microprocessor First page out = 15 sec. Like other told the RAM would help to buffer big … Read more
This attack disproportionately affected universities because, for historical reasons, many universities use public IPv4 addresses for most or all of their network, and for academic reasons have little or no ingress (or egress!) filtering. Thus, many individual devices on a university network can be reached directly from anywhere on the Internet. In your specific case, … Read more