[2276] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Re: G/L tests to GLTE & G/L production to GLMP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David M. Rosenberg)
Fri Feb 8 23:12:35 2002
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Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 23:12:30 -0500
To: Gillian Emmons <gemmons@MIT.EDU>
From: "David M. Rosenberg" <Rosenberg@MIT.EDU>
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At 10:19 PM -0500 on 2/8/02, Gillian Emmons wrote (in a message with the
subject "Re: G/L tests to GLTE & G/L production to GLMP"):
>David and Jay, is it correct that we can now test to our local SAP printer,
>REP2, and see the results exactly as we would through GLMP? Is there any
>need to send our small tests to W91 printers?
Gill,
Almost but not EXACTLY the same. I know of two issues - one real and one
potential.
The real issue is that the mechanism we use for separating (jogging) one
user's output from another's on the IBM printers has the effect that on an
H-P LaserJet (such as REP2) the back side of the first page of the cover
letter is blank and page two of the cover letter is printed on the next
sheet. (I think that this only happens for the "U.S. Mail" addressees whose
output is not jogged, but it might be the other way - that the "U.S. Mail"
addressees are printed OK and everybody else gets a blank back side of the
first page of the cover letter.)
The potential issue is that REP2 uses a "real" Postscript interpreter in
the printer hardware, whereas when you are printing to the IBM printers
InfoPrint Manager is using a software Postscript interpreter on the
InfoPrint Manager computer. The software Postscript interpreter translates
Postscript to IPDS which it sends to the IBM printer. IBM's software
Postscript interpreter should be equivalent to Hewlett-Packard's hardware
Postscript interpreter. However, we have seen some minor discrepancies in
the past and there is always a (small) chance that everything will look
fine when printed on REP2 with Hewlett-Packard's hardware Postscript
interpreter and not look quite the same when processed through IBM's
software Postscript interpreter.
Someone from DOST can address this more authoritatively, but I thought that
as long as there still is an IBM printer in E19 and you use the GLTE print
queue, the operators would try to print the job on the IBM printer in E19
rather than the IBM printer in W91.
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/David M. Rosenberg rosenberg@mit.edu 1-617-253-8054
