[1937] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Re: Printer drivers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David F Lambert)
Tue Nov 20 13:20:37 2001
Message-Id: <200111201820.NAA24051@pacific-carrier-annex.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 01 13:18:21 EST
From: David F Lambert <LAMBERT@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
To: "Lynne E. Durland" <durland@MIT.EDU>,
Mary Ellen Bushnell <bushnell@MIT.EDU>,
Enterprise Printing Delivery Project Team <printdel@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:17:51 -0500 from <durland@MIT.EDU>
I'd defintely vote not to make the download directly available off MIT
web pages - maintenance issue of keeping current with the vendors'
latest & greatest drivers. I have no problem pointing to the vendors'
pages though...
-Dave
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:17:51 -0500 you said:
>Mary Ellen,
>
>For the central queues it would be best to be using the IBM 3160/ip60 PS
>driver, is it worth it to point people to the download from IBM, or have it
>available on our page as a download, not really sure.
>
>The drivers that come with windows/mac for drivers work, we can discuss
>this again at the meeting on Monday, but I personally don't think people
>will want to download the specific driver, even if is right there, or we
>can do the long term approach and ask the software release team to include
>the driver in the package in the next release of KLP/R.
>
>Lynne
>
>At 10:51 AM 11/20/2001, Mary Ellen Bushnell wrote:
>>Sorry to keep beating on this one. But would there be any advantage in
>>pointing people to drivers for the two printer types?
>>
>>IBM: http://www.printers.ibm.com/R5PSC.NSF/Web/infodr
>>HP: http://www.hp.com/cposupport/swindexes/hplaserjet7854_swen.html (or
>>whatever one is correct.
>>
>>ME
>
>Lynne E. Durland
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