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Greetings: The PWG Standards Development Process Document revision from the Printer Working Group has completed its Last Call process. The Working Draft document is being submitted by the Printer Working Group Chair for a Formal Approval vote by the PWG membership. The Working Draft being submitted can be downloaded at: ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/process/pwg-process20-20041006.pdf The voting period will open on Monday October 18, 2004 and close at 10PM (Pacific Time) on Tuesday November 9, 2004. Valid votes are: Yes, No, No (with strong objection), Abstain. Any No vote requires that the voter state the reason for the No vote and a description of the changes required to turn the No vote to a Yes. Representatives from PWG member companies are strongly encouraged to submit a vote. To cast a vote, please send an email with the following subject line format: "PWG Process Formal Vote-<company name>-<last name of voter>-<yes/no/abstain>" Example:  PWG Process Formal Vote-Lexmark-thrasher-yes No votes MUST contain a reason in the body of the email. Please send your vote to the following email addresses: thrasher@lexmark.com a.s.patel@ieee.org harryl@us.ibm.com Jerry Thrasher PWG Secretary