We are looking at putting print servers in a data center location that is a couple hundred kilometers away from most of our users. The print server and our desktops will be on the same domain, and the users will access the printers from their desktops. Pretty standard stuff, just with the print servers being farther away than is normally the case.
My immediate concern was in regards to WAN utilization and bandwidth. I worry about how much WAN bandwidth the print jobs will consume. Are there some "standard rules" that apply to this? Is the bandwidth simply "management bandwidth" or does the full print job go across the WAN? Ex: If I print a 10 MB PDF file, does the 10 MB go across the WAN, or is it just "management/meta data" that goes across the WAN? Apologies for rather simple question, my experience with print servers is quite limited.