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Best Practices for

Printer Management:Printing and theOracle E-Business Suite

Executive Summary

Managing printers within the Oracle E-Business Suite is a

complicated, time consuming and manually laborious matter

Typically, the administrator must install the printer within the

various operating and geographic environments, followedby the

installationwithintheOracleE-BusinessSuiteitself.Whencoupled

with other implementation-related challenges, there remains a

significant opportunity to automate, thus working smarter, not

harder,andsavingbothtimeandmoney.

Table of Contents

PrinterUsageTrends ..........................................................................................................2

Regulatoryrequirementsfuelthefire.........................................................................3

Securityplaysanincreasingrole.............................................................................3

EffectsofPrintingontheBusiness ...............................................................................4

ImpacttoDeliveryDates ..............................................................................................4

IncreaseinAdministrativeEffort .............................................................................4

IncreaseinExpenseandSupportcalls...................................................................4

ManagingPrintersinanOracleE-BusinessSuiteEnvironment......................5

FromtheUsersPerspective .......................................................................................5

TheReality..........................................................................................................................5

TechnicalRequirementsforDirectIPPrinting ..................................................5

Makingthemostofthesituation...................................................................................7

AnotherScenario .............................................................................................................7

SolutionsforPrintingandtheOEBS.............................................................................8

ComponentsofRealSolutions ...................................................................................8

UnitaskOutputDirector ....................................................................................................8

BenefitsofOutputDirector.........................................................................................9

AboutUnitask......................................................................................................................10

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