Yes, implementing SMS is a piece of cake, you could send a message to a
gateway that sends a message to the phone, or you could just connect a phone
to the printer. The last option sounds primitive, but it would allow the
printer software to receive coded SMS messages, perhaps from the operator to
start or shutdown the machine.
It is just that the punter who submits the job needs a way of saying "I want
an SMS when the job has finished, and here is my SMS number" You could do
it with a sort of conventional email address like +3275736639 at sms but the
submitter would not know whether SMS was really supported and what the
convention was unless he or she asked the printer site first.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: don at lexmark.com [mailto:don at lexmark.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 14:14
> To: Anthony.Porter at xeikon.com> Cc: cmanros at cp10.es.xerox.com; ipp at pwg.org> Subject: RE: IPP> ADM - Pick your favorite notification
> delivery method
> by July 7
>>> Anthony:
>> Is there not an e-mail to SMS gateway somewhere?
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>>>> Anthony.Porter%xeikon.com at interlock.lexmark.com on 06/29/2000
> 08:03:43 AM
>> To: cmanros%cp10.es.xerox.com at interlock.lexmark.com,
> ipp%pwg.org at interlock.lexmark.com> cc: (bcc: Don Wright/Lex/Lexmark)
> Subject: RE: IPP> ADM - Pick your favorite notification
> delivery method by
> July 7
>>>> Has the possibility for supporting SMS/Pager notifications
> been dropped? I
> dont find anything about in the Notification spec.
>> In Europe now almost every man woman and child has an SMS
> phone, so SMS
> would be the notification method of choice where a human is
> the recipient.
> I think it is even more important than email notification.
> Our printers are
> usually located remotely from the customer submitting the
> job, so IPP is
> useful for that. On the other hand the person who is going
> to pick up the
> printed output will usually be travelling around. Many are freelance
> graphic designers. For them, an SMS notification is perfect.
> Another point
> is that the machine operator is usually wandering around
> doing all sorts of
> jobs, so SMS is the ideal way to notify the operator of any
> abnormal machine
> conditions.
>> For our customers I think SMS is by far the most important
> notification
> mechanism, so we would implement that first and then think
> about maybe doing
> some of the others. Old style pagers seem to have gone the
> way of 8-track
> stereo.
>> Xeikon NV
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