[288] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Re: Answers to Dave's Q's from yesterday
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lynne E. Durland)
Tue Jun 13 11:23:16 2000
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 11:23:11 -0400
To: Kenneth Bruggeman <kiplb@MIT.EDU>,
Enterprise Printing Delivery Project Team <printdel@MIT.EDU>
From: "Lynne E. Durland" <durland@MIT.EDU>
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Ken and team,
good news, we have some components of the Elixir software already licensed
and on site. We use it to create the afp overlays.
Lynne
At 10:25 AM 6/13/00 -0400, Kenneth Bruggeman wrote:
>Hey there folks,
>
>I had a meeting with two of the Heidelberg reps yesterday and put forth the
>questions Dave had asked about the connectivity of the Digimaster 9110 (110
>ppm)
>I asked Janet Doherty to send me an answer in email so I could forward it
>on to you folks. I also got the Xerox solution which looks like it can do
>the same thing. I can bring the spec sheets to our next meeting for all
>five solutions and also I'll let you know what I find out about the Canon
>Image Runner 600
>(60 ppm) which goes for around $20K connected. Much cheaper than the 3160
>
>Here goes:
>
>The Digimaster 9110 is an open system that has the standard networking
>protocols such as TCP/IP LPR, SPX/IPX and Ethertalk. It also has has an
>open architecture and supports the following PDL's: Postscript 3, PCL 6,
>Tiff (CCITT Group 4), PDF and Ascii. It has a buffering system that allows
>the system to process and print the jobs concurrently. This buffering can
>be turned off when printing from a Mainframe so that it will allow large
>data jobs to flow through the system. So this gives you productivity during
>your Copytech jobs, because you can process and print jobs you are working
>on during the day, and then do your Mainframe printing in the off hours,
>giving you flexibility.
>
>The main objective in printing Mainframe data is to find out what kind of a
>system it is coming from, what the data type is such as ascii, AFP, etc.,
>and what the network protocol is that can be sent from the mainframe or the
>network server. If it is a datatype that is not supported from our printer,
>there are many 3rd party software packages that we have worked with in the
>past. A couple of such types are Planet Press from Objectif Lune and Elixir
>software. Planet Press allows you to take ascii maniframe data and create
>fancy postscript forms that allow you to dress up the data and print it to
>the 9110. Elixir software can take in many types of data and then convert
>it to a common printing standard such as PDF, Postscript or Tiff.
>
>There are many options for printing from the mainframe. I would be happy to
>work with your team to find the best and most appropriate solution for doing
>this printing. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to
>call me.
Lynne E. Durland
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