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Prologue:
Epilogue: Roger K deBry
Senior Techncial Staff Member
Architecture and Technology
IBM Printing Systems
email: rdebry at us.ibm.com
phone: 1-303-772-2479
Don Wright wrote:
Here you are clearly wrong. Lexmark's MarkVision for
the WEB is able to provide printer and printer Queue status
on unmodified, unassisted browsers today. If our scenarios
and models do not support this mode of operation then a
grave design error has been made.
RKD> Don, I'm not sure what you mean here. Clearly one can
RKD> continue to use existing browsers as you have in
RKD> MarkVision for the web. However, you can't, in my mind,
RKD> mix the two. For example, the following seems to be
RKD> difficult, if not impossible:
Client Printer
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get printer capabilities (IPP request)
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capabilities (html ala MarkVision)
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print request, using capabilities (IPP)