Comment by icebraining
10 years ago
I think you overestimate the queue size of a regular printer. Many still only have 32MB of RAM, so they can barely hold more than a few pages, if they have graphics. In my office, it's common for the OS queue to be waiting for the printer queue to free up some space.
So what?
If three users on a workstation each print a document that uses lots of RAM, two of them are going to have to wait no matter what.
My point is that you still want a workstation daemon for a networked printer, because the printer can't hold three documents in its queue, yet the other users don't want to have to manually retry printing until they get a spot in the queue.