[2334] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Re: Why IPM vs APS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mary Ellen Bushnell)
Mon Feb 25 17:02:59 2002
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Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:59:02 -0500
To: David F Lambert <LAMBERT@mitvma.mit.edu>,
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From: Mary Ellen Bushnell <bushnell@MIT.EDU>
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Looks good to me. Shall I put it up in the project notebook- maybe
right on the top page?
At 4:43 PM -0500 2/25/02, David F Lambert wrote:
>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
