[731] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Re: HP Printers emulate IPDS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David F Lambert)
Wed Nov 29 13:14:37 2000
Message-Id: <200011291814.NAA10882@fort-point-station.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 00 13:07:27 EST
From: David F Lambert <LAMBERT@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
To: Enterprise Printing Delivery Project Team <printdel@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:19:25 -0500
An interesting find on your part, Lynne. Thanks for sharing the info
re: The Blue Kit.
I'm inclined to put this item in the same bucket as past discussions
regarding print engine options - which means let's do continual
review of the print engines for appropriateness in steady state.
For now, I vote that we concentrate on getting IPM to work the best
it can with the 3160s and native Postscript HPs.
-Dave
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:19:25 -0500 Lynne said:
>Greetings teammates,
>
>In trying to research the SNMP capabilities of the new HP 4050 printer, I
>stumbled across a very interesting factoid. There is now something called
>by one vendor the blue kit for hp. This DIMM, when installed in an hp
>printer transforms the hp pcl/postscript printer into a "fully" functional
>IPDS printer.
>
>The hp site information available is very slight, including that the
>specifications for the 8100 printers is that this is not an option. One of
>the vendors, MPI, claims that they have a kit that will do this
>transformation for the hp5si, 4050 and 8100 family of printers.
>
>There is no indication of cost per kit in the pages I have found and or
>looked at yet, but if it truly can make the hp8100 look and interact with
>the ipm server like any ibm ipds printer, some of our accounting and
>control issues look a lot better.
>
>There is one line in the paragraph describing this kit that reads: Your HP
>laserjet printer is thus recognised by the ibm system as a true ipds printer.
>
>If this is true then we would be able to do a "normal" printer setup
>through the java gui, the operators would be able to start and stop the
>file printing, and would be able to "forward space" into stopped print
>files to restart them and reduce/eliminate reprinting of pages already
>printed because of printer jams/out of paper/network problems.
>
>Is this worth pursuing under the delivery project?
>
>Is this something that should be placed in the production parking lot to be
>pursued after we are in the steady state?
>
>Is this something we do not want to pursue?
>
>The information is at:
>
>http://193.251.76.19/US/
>
>The other vendor is idata and the web site was not responding
>well. (http://www.i-data.com)
>
>Lynne
>
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>
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