[IPP] RFC: print-quality-percent (integer(0:100))

[IPP] RFC: print-quality-percent (integer(0:100))

Michael Sweet msweet at msweet.org
Wed Aug 28 21:19:18 UTC 2019


Smith,

I do understand the appeal that some vendors have for adding more knobs to differentiate their products, however I can tell you from a client perspective that Apple is extremely unlikely to support arbitrary vendor print quality values since it makes for a bad user experience.


> On Aug 28, 2019, at 4:04 PM, Kennedy, Smith (Wireless & Standards Architect) <smith.kennedy at hp.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> The only problem I see is that vendor- or site-defined print quality values, printer vendors likely want labels that can at least uniquely identify the additional settings, and that could have corresponding _tooltip and _helpurl content.
> 
> Smith
> 
> /**
>     Smith Kennedy
>     HP Inc.
> */
> 
>> On Aug 28, 2019, at 1:33 PM, Michael Sweet via ipp <ipp at pwg.org> wrote:
>> 
>> All,
>> 
>> As an alternative to adding more (out of order) enum values to print-quality, how about a print-quality-percent (integer(0:100)) attribute where:
>> 
>> - print-quality-percent='25' maps to print-quality='3' (draft),
>> - print-quality-percent='50' maps to print-quality='4' (normal), and
>> - print-quality-percent='75' maps to print-quality='5' (high5)
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> ________________________
>> Michael Sweet
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> ipp mailing list
>> ipp at pwg.org
>> https://www.pwg.org/mailman/listinfo/ipp
> 

________________________
Michael Sweet





More information about the ipp mailing list