[179] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Postscript and PCL in the MIT Printing Environment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rocklyn E. Clarke)
Tue Apr 25 11:23:01 2000
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 00 10:51:09 EDT
From: "Rocklyn E. Clarke" <RCLARKE@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
To: Michael J Whitson <mwhitson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Enterprise Print Delivery Team <PRINTDEL@MIT.EDU>,
Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>, Jeff Banta <jeffbant@us.ibm.com>,
Lynne E Durland <durland@MIT.EDU>
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Hi Mike,
Jeff Banta has been working on printing from our loaner InfoPrint Manager (IPM)
server to the HP LaserJet 5Si in W91-230. By following your instructions
I have been able to successfully turn BOOTP on and off for this printer
(I turned it back on after our last meeting). As a result, Jeff has been
able to successfully use IPM to control the printer.
I the course of setting up suitable print queues, Jeff discovered that the
printer can accomodate two queues: PCL and Postscript. He has successfully
printed in both modes, but would like to make follow the simplest possible
paradigm for setting up IPM print queues so that our production system will
not be unneccessarily complicated (assuming that we go ahead with IPM).
For this reason, we need to know what role PCL and Postscript play in MIT's
printing environment. Do we use:
1. Both Postscript and PCL
2. Postscript only
3. PCL only
4. Neither
I'm almost certain that the answer is 1 or 2 above (I would guess 2), but
I've been wrong before, so I've included all of the logical possibilities. If
the answer turns out to be 3 I will be unhappy since this will mean I am out
of touch with our print environment (this might be true anyway). You will
therefore have to break the news to me gently! If the answer turns out to
be 4 I will be very unhappy and will probably need to take a vacation day.
I have copied Camilla so that she can chime in if she reads this first.
I hope everything is going well with your new job.
Rocklyn
