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Re: secure printing to network-based printers

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David F. Lambert)
Tue Apr 18 07:42:25 2000

Message-Id: <10004181142.AA29440@MIT.EDU>
Date:         Tue, 18 Apr 00 07:34:56 EDT
From: "David F. Lambert" <LAMBERT@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
To: "Peter B. Kelley" <kelley@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Enterprise Printing Delivery Project Team <printdel@MIT.EDU>,
        Roger Roach <rar@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To:  Your message of Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:21:53 -0400

On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:21:53 -0400 Peter said:
>One of the printing issues that has been a problem for us is the
>requirement of "secure printing" for some of our important applications
>[i.e. Student Services].  Our current implementation is to use
>point-to-point serial line solutions to distributed printers - not a very
>elegant solution, and one that is difficult to manage.
>
>The ODSUE team has just point me to a company that claims to solve the
>secure printing problem for network based printers by means of an add-on
>product that installs into standard HP printers.  The device allows both
>encrypted and non-encrypted data streams which meets the current requirement.
>
>I'd like to pass along to the Enterprise Printing Team this pointer to
>their web site and request at least a review of this product for potential
>use at MIT to meet the "secure printing" requirement.
>
>   http://www.capellatech.com/   See "Add On Security for HP Laserjets"
>
>
>thanks,  Pete

Thanks for the pointer, Pete.  It sounds similar to a solution provided
by i-data.  We'll take a look at Capella's solution...

Dave (for the Printing Delivery Team)

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