May 2008
Intermediate to advanced
21 pages
58m
English
Use this job aid to calculate capacity of network connections for print servers. Assumptions used in this job aid include:
Clients will print on average once each 10 minutes.
Minimum acceptable print performance is approximately eight seconds per megabyte.
| Number of clients assigned to server | 450 |
| Average print job size in megabytes | 2.3 |
| Network throughput required (‘Number of clients’ * ‘job size’) / 600 * 2 | 3.45 Mbps |