Connecting Printers in a new print shop

[Copy Cats]

Hello, Im new to the forum, and new to the print shop business. I am in the process of opening a new shop.

I would like some suggestions on best ways to connect all of the printers i have in the shop. I have a small shop and no printers will have customer access. All print jobs will be sent from employees(just me now). I have a computer in the front and two in the back, I also have 2 laptops i may move around or take with me. All of my printers/copiers are ip network printers and are connected now.

1- I have heard of using a computer as a print server and send all jobs thru this computer, or
2- I could install all printers on one desktop computer and share it with all other printers, or
3- should i just setup and install all of the printers on each computer and send all jobs directly to the printers?

or any other suggestions would be helpful. Thanks

 

[Brunner]

I choose 3, that way you don't need to worry about constantly keeping a host up and running, redundancy is important. 1 and 2 are the same.

 

[xfactor printing]

Will all the printers have the same kind of RIP (e.g. fiery or creo or ?)
How many computers do you have?
I choose 3 also. No one point of failure to take everything down.