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Jul 6, 2021 by Smith Kennedy
Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)
PWG 5100.7-2019: IPP Job Extensions v2.0 (JOBEXT)
5.3.1.16: Update "media-size-name" normative requirements for Printers

Smith Kennedy Jul 6, 2021

Section 5.3.1.16 "media-size-name" says this:

The RECOMMENDED "media-size-name" member attribute defines the media size using a PWG media size name [PWG5101.1] instead of the dimensions in the "media-size" member attribute. Clients and Printers MUST NOT specify both the "media-size" and "media-size- name" member attributes in a collection.

While the Printer should list both to support both Clients that do and do not support "media-size-name", the Client is supposed to only provide one in the "media-col" Job Template attribute. But PWG specifications aren't supposed to have normative requirements on Clients. So section 5.3.1.16 should instead say something like this:

The RECOMMENDED "media-size-name" member attribute defines the media size using a PWG media size name [PWG5101.1] instead of the dimensions in the "media-size" member attribute. A "media-col" Job Template attribute collection cannot contain both "media-size" and "media-size-name". If a Client supplies both of these member attributes, the Printer MUST reject the request and return the 'client-error-attributes-or-values-not-supported' status code [STD92].


And section 5.5.32 should now include a statement like so:

A Printer SHOULD provide both "media-size" and "media-size-name" member attributes in each collection.

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