[1947] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Re: Central Print Service article for your review
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David F Lambert)
Mon Nov 26 08:48:19 2001
Message-Id: <200111261348.IAA28846@pacific-carrier-annex.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 01 08:28:02 EST
From: David F Lambert <LAMBERT@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
To: Robyn Fizz <fizz@MIT.EDU>
cc: Enterprise Printing Delivery Project Team <printdel@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:25:11 -0500
Hi Robyn,
Here are a few suggested changes in the draft article for the i/s Newsletter.
Thanks much...
Printdel Team, would one of you kind folks confirm my correction to the
one time browser config changes below?
-Dave
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:25:11 -0500 you said:
>Hi Dave,
>
>Here's the copy-fitted version. Let me know if you have changes as
>soon as you can, but by Monday at the latest.
>
>Thanks, and have a great holiday if I don't see you.
>
>Robyn
>
>-------------------------------
>
>IS Offers New Central Printing Service to the MIT Community
>
>* Mary Ellen Bushnell
>
>Information Systems now offers a network-based printing service at no
>cost. The goal is to meet the need for large-volume administrative
>PostScript and PDF print output such as that generated by the
>Admissions Office or CAO. However, the service is available to anyone
>in the MIT community.
>
>Features
>The new service is built on IBM's Infoprint Manager (IPM) - queue
>management software that lives on the network and accepts print
>requests submitted over the network from desktop computers and
>networked servers. IPM runs on an RS6000 server under the AIX
>operating system and prints to two IBM IP3160s and an HP8100. The
>equipment and software reside in W91 except for one printer in E19.
I'd suggest killing the last sentence. We're trying to shut down
our E19 printing service.
>How to Submit a Print Request
>There are two ways to submit a print request to IPM:
>
>* Set up a desktop printer. This option is easy since it is the same
>as setting up a desktop printer for any networked PostScript printer.
>
>* Use the Web interface. This option offers more control. Users can
>view their queue and make changes after submitting a job, such as
>changing media, or number of copies, or even deleting the job. IPM
>can process PDF and image files, but all other files (e.g., Word or
>Excel), must be printed to file in PostScript (level 2) format. This
>option requires a one- time edit to Netscape Preferences so that a
>PostScript file is saved to disk.
I believe the change to Netscape is required to provide the appropriate
mime wrapper around the previously saved Postscript file - not for
saving to the disk. Would another team member please confirm?
It would be useful to say something about the one time need to establish
your delivery address & Cost Object via the Web interface.
>For full instructions, start at
>http://web.mit.edu/is/help/centralprinting/
>
>Security
>Users are authenticated depending on where they originate their print
>request. A job submitted from a desktop computer or application
>server is authenticated by Kerberos. A job submitted over the Web is
>secured via the user's MIT Web certificates.
'where' in the first sentence above makes it sound a little like
an IP address or hostname. Might be clearer to replace 'where they originate
their print request' to 'the mechanism used to submit their print job'.
Also, in the second sentence, please insert 'via KLPR' after 'submitted'.
>Files traveling the network to IPM are exposed; the Central Print
>Service does not provide encryption at this time
>.
>Security of the printed output itself between the Data Center and the
>user is handled by whatever delivery requirements have been specified
>for the job.
Change 'specified' to 'arranged' - to better indicate this is a discussion
with humans.
>Output Delivery
>Print output from IPM is delivered by campus mail. Customers who need
>output sooner can have jobs set aside for pickup at W91 by calling
>x3-7049. Output can be directed to other campus addresses by changing
>the room number on the Account Info Web page at
>
>https://pillage.mit.edu/accountinfo/accountinfo.html
>
>Support
>Customers who currently call the Business Liaison Team for support
>should call the BLT for help with printing problems associated with
>the Central Print Service. Others should call the Help Desk -
>Macintosh, x3-1101; Windows, x3-1102. There are also related Stock
>Answers, under Printing, at http://hdstock.mit.edu
>--
>
>Robyn Fizz
>News Coordinator
>MIT Information Systems
>N42-290B
>Phone: 617 253-0540
>Fax: 617 258-6875
>
>For up-to-date computing news, see
>http://web.mit.edu/is/newslink/
