[93] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Follow Up Questions for Moore
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David F. Lambert)
Fri Feb 25 07:55:26 2000
Message-Id: <10002251256.AA24076@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 00 07:52:57 EST
From: "David F. Lambert" <LAMBERT@mitvma.mit.edu>
To: Enterprise Printing Delivery Project Team <printdel@MIT.EDU>
Folks,
Below you'll find my draft list of follow up questions for Moore. PLEASE
submit your questions today if at all possible. I'd like to complete
our list of questions and schedule Moore to meet with us within the
next week or two at the latest. Thanks.
-Dave
Follow up questions for Moore:
- What are Moore's opinions regarding i-data?
- What are Moore's opinions regarding Jetform & <?> (from Rachel
by way of Rocklyn)?
- Do other companies bascially ignore the issue of unencrypted
sensitive print files traveling over their intranets?
- We could manage the legacy and Postscript/network attached printer
worlds with separate tools. What are the real advantages
to managing these two worlds with a single tool such as IPM?
You mentioned one or two specific benefits on Pg 4 of your report.
- If we decided to manage the two worlds separately, what would
be Moore's top two or three recommended solutions for managing the
Postscript/network attached world - Dazel & EasySpooler? Do
either of these products handle AFP print files or AFP printers (either
channel of network attached)?
- For what period of time would you predict your proposed architectural
model to be viable?
- Does the transformation process require much processor overhead?
- Should we be concerned about resolution issues if we transform
600 DPI PostScript output to 240 DPI AFP?
- It appears we would have three options for the central
printing of differing datastream types with the IPM/Barr solution -
transformation to a single datastream type, provide multiple
types of printers (i.e. PostScript & AFP), or implement central
printers which can handle multiple types of datastreams such
as Xerox. What are the dis/advantages of these three approaches?
- Are there any restrictions with attaching the Barr or IPM server
on a channel with both the local (W91) 3827 & 4245s and the remote
(channel extended) 3160, 4245 and 3174 communication controllers in
E19? More specifically, can non-printer devices be attached
on the same channel string with printers via the IPM/Barr server?
- Do the recommended solutions allow for the delegation of authority
for queue/printer management, possibly for Help Desk staff or
end users.
