The Printer Working Group
The Printer Working GroupOur members include printer and multi-function device manufacturers, print server developers, operating system providers, print management application developers, and industry experts. We make printers, multi-function devices, and the applications and operating systems supporting them work together better.
The PWG Formal Vote of the IPP Finishings v3.0 (FIN) specification is currently underway.
The PWG has defined an IPP extension for 3D printing using standard file formats and an associated XML print job ticket format.
Print to any network or USB printer without using special software from the manufacturer.
Support multiple network protocols and job ticket formats using our abstract model.
PWG Standards define all of the common network protocols used by your printer.
PWG Last Call: IPP Finishings v3.0 (FIN) (concluded) Feb 25, 2022
The PWG Last Call of the IPP Finishings v3.0 (FIN) specification is now underway and ends March 21, 2022.
PWG August 2021 Virtual Face-to-Face Meeting - Summary Aug 30, 2021
The PWG held its August 2021 Virtual Face-to-Face Meeting on August 17-19, 2021 via Webex teleconferences. Representatives from Brother, Canon, High North, HP Inc., Kyocera Document Solutions, Lakeside Robotics, Lexmark, Ricoh, TIC, and TCS attended the meetings, among other individuals. Attendees reviewed work in progress, including drafts of a number of in-progress specifications, and discussed liaisons with partner groups. Here is a summary of the proceedings.
IPP WG Approved: IPP Everywhere v1.1 Printer Self-Certification Tools - Update 3 Jun 16, 2021
All,
The latest update of the IPP Everywhere v1.1 Printer Self-Certification Tools has been approved and can be downloaded from the self-certification portal at:
https:// www.pwg.org/ ippeveselfcert
Direct links to the tools are as follows:
https:// https:/ftp.pwg.org/ pub/ pwg/ tools/ sw-ippeveselfcert11-20210517-macos.zip / https:/ftp.pwg.org/ pub/ pwg/ tools/ sw-ippeveselfcert11-20210517-rhel.tar.gz / https:/ftp.pwg.org/ pub/ pwg/ tools/ sw-ippeveselfcert11-20210517-ubuntu.tar.gz / ftp.pwg.org/ pub/ pwg/ tools/ sw-ippeveselfcert11-20210517-windows.msi
This update addresses the following issues in the previous release of the tools:
- The DNS-SD tests now look for a TLS key whose value contains a TLS version number (Issue #6464)
- The document tests now wait for each job to complete before proceeding to the next job (Issue #6666)
- Finishing options were not reported correctly by `ippevesubmit` in the JSON file (Issue #6767)
- The `media-needed` test did not work on streaming printers (Issue #6868)
Enjoy!
PWG May 2021 Virtual Face-to-Face Meeting - Summary May 20, 2021
The PWG held its May 2021 Virtual Face-to-Face Meeting on May 4-7, 2021 via Webex teleconferences. This event was held in collaboration with Linux Foundation OpenPrinting Workgroup. Sessions were presented by both organizations over the event‘s 4 days. Representatives from Artifex, Canon, Canonical, Google, High North, HP Inc., Konica Minolta, Kyocera Document Solutions, Lakeside Robotics, Lexmark, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Pharos, Red Hat, Ricoh, TIC, and TCS attended the meetings, among others. Attendees reviewed work in progress, including drafts of a number of in-progress specifications, and discussed liaisons with partner groups. Here is a summary of the proceedings.
PWG February 2021 Face-to-Face Meeting - Summary Feb 22, 2021
The PWG held its February 2021 Virtual Face-to-Face Meeting on February 9-11, 2021 via Webex teleconferences. Representatives from Canon, Google, High North, HP Inc., Konica Minolta, Kyocera Document Solutions, Lakeside Robotics, Lexmark, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Pharos, Ricoh, TIC, TCS and Xerox attended the meetings, among others. Attendees reviewed work in progress, including drafts of a number of in-progress specifications, and discussed liaisons with partner groups. Here is a summary of the proceedings.