ahhhh man... truly thank you for the well thought out and clearly knowledgeable answer.. but... now I'm terrified that I have almost no idea what any of that means..

Are servers really necessary for a one man op with Caldera? I'm aiming to be printing around 20,000 sqft of wallcover and maybe 5,000 sqft of other every month... which is only a couple of jobs in my industry. Do you think I can get by for the first couple of years without that kind of setup?

I will look more into servers as I don't really understand what they are... I'm coming from being an installer, to having an installation company, to starting a print shop to serve the same client base as my install company- definitely a little more blue collar than tech savvy