[2335] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Re: Why IPM vs APS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David F Lambert)
Mon Feb 25 17:53:27 2002
Message-Id: <200202252253.RAA19114@fort-point-station.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 02 17:52:04 EST
From: David F Lambert <LAMBERT@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
To: Mary Ellen Bushnell <bushnell@MIT.EDU>,
Enterprise Printing Delivery Project Team <printdel@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:59:02 -0500 from <bushnell@MIT.EDU>
As soon as Rocklyn checks in on the list, please do add it to the project
notebook. I just want to hear that Rocklyn's comfy with the current list.
-Dave
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:59:02 -0500 MEB said:
>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
>>
>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>>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
>
