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Bullet Items for Our FSS and R3-Admin Presentations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rocklyn E. Clarke)
Thu Jun 22 21:52:59 2000
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 00 21:51:45 EDT
From: "Rocklyn E. Clarke" <RCLARKE@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
To: Enterprise Print Delivery Team <PRINTDEL@MIT.EDU>
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Hi Team,
I've expanded on the ASPCC bullets. Here is what I've got:
Rocklyn
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ENTERPRISE PRINTING (Centralized Printing Services)
Who:
The delivery team membership is Kip Bruggeman, Mary Ellen Bushnell,
Rocklyn Clarke, Lynne Durland, Dave Lambert and Cecilia Talamantes
Charter:
Implement a new centralized printing system to manage print queues
and printers based on the recommendations of the discovery project.
The current central printing services are provided by the IBM
mainframe. Most applications have migrated off the mainframe.
Justification:
- the mainframe is being phased out
- simplify the ability to move print files from application servers to
the print management system
- the mainframe printing services do not support Postscript files; CAO
requires large volume Postscript printing services
Solution:
- implement IBM's InfoPrint Manager
- support network attached printers in a heterogeneous environment
- utilize existing I/T assets across the legacy and new server
environments more efficiently and cost effectively
IPM Hardware & Software
- Server runs on AIX / RS6000
- IPM Operations GUI for AIX runs on server
- IPM Administrator GUI for AIX runs on server
- Security - Kerberos
- InfoPrint Select for Windows Client (single print files)
- InfoPrint Submit for Windows Client (mult. print files, var prt data)
- InfoPrint Manager for the Web
IPM Configuration
- Logical Destinations, Queues, and Actual Destinations
- Conversions (postscript -> IPDS, PCL -> IPDS)
- Passthru mode (postscript -> postscript)
- 3160 Printers (channel attach & ethernet attach)
- VM Printing
IPM Function
- Queue management
- Print file retention
- Email notification & fax transmission
Timeline:
7/1/2000 finalize hardware and software configurations
8/1/2000 rollout initial service
9/1/2000 rollout large volume Postscript service
Funding:
Funding will be provided from the existing ASAP and ASOP budgets.
