[690] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
IPM and distributed printers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Wed Nov 15 18:37:12 2000
Message-Id: <200011152332.SAA11118@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: printdel@MIT.EDU
cc: ops@MIT.EDU, tregan@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:32:51 -0500
Hi,
After seeing a recent set of printdel meeting minutes, I'm a little
confused about hte scope of the printdel project. I was under the
impression that the scope was limited to replacing printing from the
mainframe.* However, the minutes I've seen I get the impression the
team is planning to set up IPM queues for all of the distributed
printers currently served by arbor-eater and fiber. I think I heard
someone say at some point that the plan wasn't to replace the
arbor-eater and fiber functionality immediately, but to maintain
enough compatibility that that would be an option in the future.
However, this doesn't look like what is actually happening
(particularly the plans to purchase licenses for 550 printers). I'd
appreciate it if someone could explain what is actually going on,
along with some of the thought process behind it, since I'm feeling
rather lost right now (and this obiviously has teh ability to impact
my team).
* The original scpoe had included all administrative printing, but the
distributed printing side of things was removed around a year ago to
make the scope managable.
Thanks,
Jonathon
