You are not alone in thinking the world needs a robust, fully-featured
network printer interface. Personally I think this is MUCH MORE VALUABLE to
corporates than IPP - sadly it is not in the glamorous glow of the Internet
with all its unlimited budgets, hype, etc.
Who couldn't I persuade - Xerox, IBM, Canon, Sharp, Novell.... I had this
discussion on the first day I attended a WG meeting - 'we need two things,
something to provide high level features for users on the Internet,
something to fix the 'LPD sucks' problem'. I continued to state this every
time I was asked. Eventually I got the message that this was not a welcome
topic, and still isn't.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Martin [SMTP:jkm at underscore.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 1998 2:53 PM
> To: ipp at pwg.org> Cc: Paul Moore; 'Harry Lewis'
> Subject: IPP> Does the world need a robust host-to-device network
> printing protocol?
>> Paul Moore wrote in the "Submission vs. Monitoring and Management"
> thread:
>> > Now if somebody wants to have a separate debate about writing a really
> > robust protocol for interfacing to printers (and I mean the real
> hardware
> > not some logical abstraction) then that will suit me fine. Lets start a
> new
> > track and call it, say, NLS (Not LPD and SNMP). This is what I initially
> > wanted to do but could not persuade enough people.
>> Paul, what people were you unable to persuade? Internal Microsoft
> folks, or PWG folks, or both or what?
>> For fear of sounding as if I'm beating a dead horse to death:
>> Enterprise environments desparately need a fully functional
> host-to-device protocol for network printing.
>> Am I alone in this belief??? (I know for a fact I am NOT along.)
>> Will others in the PWG share their views using this new thread?
> If this belief turns out to be a minority view, then I'd certainly
> like to know (so I can drop the subject once and for all, if so).
>> ...jay
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