How large is best practice for a printer subnet?

[stephen22288]

Background: We have roughly 30 switch stacks in our environment including access and distribution layers. There are roughly 700 printers in this environment. Each switch stack has its own subnet for the printers.

Problem: What we would like to accomplish: Create a vlan(s) that would be trunked to each access switch stack, when a user moves a printer, we no longer would need to assign it a new IP according to which switch stack its in but instead just change the VLAN. 

Question: What is the recommended printer count per subnet/vlan to avoid drowning out the other traffic across the network. 

Thanks!

[Reza Sharifi]

If you have an environment say with multiple floors where you have a /24 for data and one for voice per floor than you can also use a /24 for printers per floor to keep things consistent. Or just create 3 /24 for printers and added them to all trunks for all floors.

HTH

[stephen22288]

Ya thats pretty much where my head was at too. Thank you for your time and help!

[Peter Koltl]

I would not worry about putting all printers into a single /22 . After all, we are in 2016, CPUs are powerful, broadcast quantity is limited.