[2290] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Heads up re: local printing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Allison F. Dolan)
Mon Feb 18 15:55:20 2002
Resent-From: David F Lambert <LAMBERT@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 07:51:40 -0500
To: Theresa Regan <tregan@MIT.EDU>, kathleen@MIT.EDU,
Carol Wood <cwood@MIT.EDU>, Dave Lambert <lambert@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
From: "Allison F. Dolan" <adolan@MIT.EDU>
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Just FYI, gang. Potentially a new use for IPM. -Dave
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This email has some heads up re: something that might be an issue
6-12 months from now, re: 'new' printing needs in departments based
on HR/Payroll.
As you may be aware, I am participating in the processes redesign
associated with HR/Payroll activities.
One of the definite trends is pushing more of the HR work out into
the DLCs, including production of the various letters that would go
to staff after a salary increase, merit review, promotion etc. The
fact that letters are now done in HR is perceived as a weakness in
the current process: it introduces delays, and many dept. ask HR to
edit the letters, sometimes for very trivial reasons (eg 'Yours
truly', vs 'Sincerely')
However, in talking about the work moving to the DLCs, DLCs are not
only concerned about the people time, but also that many depts. do
not now have printers with the speed, or the 'security' that would be
needed to print merit review letters for dozens of people at one
time. While there may be high speed printers in the area, given the
nature of personnel information, the expectation would be that such
printing would be done on a printer with some form of restricted
access. DLCs are started to get worked up about the cost of the
printers being a possible barrier to achieving the desired objective.
Now, from my perspective, what some of the 'HR' people think of as
high volume isn't really: 2-3 times per year, a DLC/Dean's Office
might have to print 200-300 single page letters with not very dense
wording ('you are getting an increase of xxx effective xxx') And
200-300 would be on the high side - most areas would be less.
I wanted to give you a heads up in case you start to hear from
people, that you might not have heard from before, re: 'high
speed/high volume' printing.
......Allison
