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<html><head><base href="x-msg://412/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Apr 18, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Justin Hutchings wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">All,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I brought up in the last face to face that a standard mechanism to express intent in PWG Raster is important to ensure that vendor implementations don’t fork across “dumb” buses like USB and Bluetooth (HCRP). I’d like to have some more discussion of this topic. If we do not create a common definition, then each vendor will likely create different variants of PWG Raster that includes intent.</div></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div>I'm not convinced that is the case. Every printer vendor already has their own PDL(s) to support legacy interfaces and protocols - given the development costs associated with adopting a new PDL, why would any vendor choose to do so without a compelling reason? The only useful advantage PWG Raster has over existing vendor PDLs is the use of client-friendly colorspaces, and many vendor PDLs have already made that transition.</div><div><br></div><div>The real advantages IPP (and alternate bindings like WS-Print), IPP-over-USB, and Bluetooth BPP have over legacy protocols are:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Well-defined model, operations, and attributes for printing, status monitoring, and control</div><div>2. Standard job tickets external to the document format</div><div>3. Support for identification and submission of multiple document formats</div><div>4. Standard extension mechanisms</div><div><br></div><div>The goal of IPP Everywhere is to replace those legacy interfaces with IPP and adopt one or more standard document formats and discovery mechanisms (in the case of network printers) so that a single "generic" driver can support all of the common use cases for printing and multifunction with any printer that conforms to the standard. Similarly, vendor-specific drivers can be written and used to support use cases outside of IPP Everywhere while still using the same core protocols.</div><div><br></div><div>I see little point in trying to retrofit support for existing printers when they generally cannot be upgraded in the first place. Moreover, printers that *can* be upgraded will likely have the resources to support IPP Everywhere since the vendor already invested in flash storage and the other related hardware necessary to support upgrades. Remember, consumer inkjet printers only recently (2008-2009) started shipping with flashable firmware, and that practice is still far from common - most still ship with everything hardcoded in ASICs and ROMs...</div><div><br></div><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div>________________________________________________________________________<br>Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair<br></div></span>
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