Good question, Sean. The reason for this is to set a baseline for interoperability. Some clients may not support PDF. So all Clients and Printers are required to support PWG Raster as a bare minimum. That way, there will always be some common document format that both can fall back to.
Smith
> On Mar 4, 2019, at 1:26 PM, Sean Kau via ipp <ipp at pwg.org> wrote:
>> Question about the IPP Everywhere specification:
>> Why do we require that printers support PWG-Raster if it can accept PDF? Is this to improve compatibility with clients? I tried to look through the archives and couldn't find any commentary.
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