[2333] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Why IPM vs APS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David F Lambert)
Mon Feb 25 16:52:40 2002
Message-Id: <200202252152.QAA23630@fort-point-station.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 02 16:43:52 EST
From: David F Lambert <LAMBERT@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
To: Enterprise Printing Delivery Project Team <printdel@MIT.EDU>
Hi Gang,
Since we've heard some secondhand grumblings about IPM vs APS, I thought
it might be useful to make a list and include it on our web pages as
well as in our response to Susan. Here's what Lynne & I came up with.
After adding any additional comments you may have, I'd like to put this
in our project notebook and include it in the note I'm drafting in
response to Susan. Your quick feedback would be greatly appreciated.
-Dave
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The team has received secondhand information questioning the choice of
Infoprint Manager over the existing Athena Print Services. Below
is a list of requirements identified during the discovery effort
which is satisfied by IPM and not believed to be available with APS.
Please note that a shared central printing service has requirements which
are not needed or are less useful in a distributed printing environment.
- User friendly interface for users
- User friendly interface for operators
- Ability to manage IPDS printers as well as Postscript printers
to reduce overall capital costs
- Support for electronic overlay forms
- Page size information for queued files for print scheduling purposes
- Current page count for actively printing file
- Ability to start a file on page 'n'
- Retention of printed files for reprints without resubmits
- Ability to obtain accurate and detailed printer status information
