To boost performance, Geltz will move the application from Paradox and NetWare to a Computer Associates CA-Ingres database on a Digital Equipment Alpha server. NEES also favors networked HP printers over fax machines to produce corporate presentations, checks with electronic signatures, and company newsletters. With locations throughout New England , Geltz finds it simple to click an icon on his PC and zip a document to a user's HP 3D LaserJet printer in another location, then click another to transmit a presentation to a different HP 1200C color printer. Geltz can remotely administer print queues and configure printers. Color print drivers let him match colors on a computer screen to the right printer instead of configuring color on a printer panel.
Cost savings are substantial.
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