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Ten Thousand Printers Can't Be Wrong: - One Driver Fits All

Ten Thousand Printers Can't Be Wrong: - One Driver Fits All. The Problem. Give Plug’n Study users easy accountable access to the campus printing environment. Plug’n Study users. Number of unique users per month. Outline. Presentation Demo Organization Goals Initial solution

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Ten Thousand Printers Can't Be Wrong: - One Driver Fits All

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  1. Ten Thousand Printers Can't Be Wrong:- One Driver Fits All

  2. The Problem Give Plug’n Study users easy accountable access to the campus printing environment

  3. Plug’n Study users Number of unique users per month

  4. Outline • Presentation • Demo • Organization • Goals • Initial solution • Yet another demo • Architecture • Benefits • Future / plans

  5. 3 years basic studies in Science, Humanities & Social Sciencesucceeded by 2 years master studies in 2 of 27 disciplines Problem oriented - Project organized -Interdisciplinary 10.000 students 1.000 employes Founded 1972 Roskilde University

  6. Demo Demo 1: Add Printer - show autoconfiguration ... SNMP on mac, don't know on windows ... Print page from Text edit "Hi, There"  Go to print.ruc.dk and Release to printer ...

  7. Organization • Project group with representatives from: • Novell admins • Student portal group (developers) • IT management • A programmer

  8. Requirements Integrate with existing printing system Support different accounting policies Support Mac, Linux & Windows

  9. Initial solution Final solution • iPrint for Windows + Linux • Custom solution for Mac • Custom solution for anybody “Mass virtual printing” Unauthenticated print entry Web based authenticated release PDF based One printer on user’s notebook Driver “hell” at server Access control at server Integrated with ED, NDS & Pcounter

  10. Unauthenticated print entry • Traditional method: One installed printer per queue • - Find your job and release it • Print.ruc.dk One installed printer per user • - Release your job to printer

  11. Mass virtual Printing • mass virtual hosting:xyz.domain.com - xyz looked up in DB • mass virtual printing:print.ruc.dk/xyz - xyz looked up in EDevery user has her “own” queue Mapping jobs to printers at release time

  12. Web based authenticated release • Easy login to release page using SSO (CAS) • OneClick mapping of job to printer • Almost better than desktop feedback • - due to custom Postscript generation

  13. PDF based • User can view or download PDF • Server based document assembly • Integration with campus print shop • Possible integration with institutional repositories

  14. One printer on user’s notebook • Using Apple postscript driver • auto configures via SNMP • IPP print • LPD not possible on standard XP installation

  15. Driver “hell” at server • Server converts print jobs from PS to PDF • Autodiscover printer model via SNMP and uses appropriate PPD

  16. Access control at server • ACL information from eDir/LDAP • Only accessible printers are shown

  17. Yet another demo Demo 2: Overview - the document is still there - and can be printed ... Occasional uses - help integrated ...Help for the platforms - with video Printers - list of printers I'm allowed to see Select the ones you normally use ...Eg add or remove the colorprinter Give them a nickname Eg rename hallway to hallAll Documents are saved for two days ..Possiblity for simple combination/concatenation of documents HistoryAlle documents printed - only titles for documents still available

  18. Architecture

  19. Benefits • Campuswide PDF generator • Very limited support needed

  20. Future / plans • Duplex • Direct print • N-Up print • Print from lab computers • Walk-up print • Integration with administrative systems

  21. Q & A

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