Depending on your printers you could have issues on how complex the label is; with my experience with Zebra 105 SLs, I followed Zebra's documents and setup the printers with method U functional teams did their testing, things looked good.
At the first two locations that went live with SAP, the Zebra printers were spitting out random labels and having 5 to 10 min delays; due to a functional team member informing my CIO directly this was due to no print server, I had the joy of whipping up 30 printers on a Windows print server. I dislike situations where functional people dictate solutions to managers vs myself, and having to do the work on the fly while on the conference bridge at 21:00 my timezone!
However since the print server has been configured for the label printers, all of the labels print properly. Looking back at the issue, I can only assume that SAP's spool system (or the label configurations) beat the label printer's buffer and prevented all the labels to print off and printing the labels in random order. The reason why this was probably not caught in the testing months before, the team printed a few labels at a time throughout the day. While the site has multiple users printing, far more labels to move the inventory through the warehouse/trucks.
While it can be done without a print server, in the long run you may have far less calls with a print server.
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