WIMS> Posted CIM Printing Refresh v0.30 (30 Jan 2006)

WIMS> Posted CIM Printing Refresh v0.30 (30 Jan 2006)

McDonald, Ira imcdonald at sharplabs.com
Wed Feb 15 17:34:07 EST 2006


Hi Rick,

THANKS!

Hey, one more element in a MappingString seems fine to me.

Cheers,
- Ira


Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: imcdonald at sharplabs.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard_Landau at Dell.com [mailto:Richard_Landau at Dell.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 3:31 PM
> To: imcdonald at sharplabs.com; wims at pwg.org
> Subject: RE: WIMS> Posted CIM Printing Refresh v0.30 (30 Jan 2006)
> 
> 
> Ira, looked at the Refresh at some length.  Great detail in there.
> Didn't see any oddities.  A couple really minor things.  
> 
> 1.  For Printer.PaperTypesAvailable, the lists of paper type strings,
> developed over many years, are sort of all over the place.  Should we
> state which lists supersede which other lists?  E.g., PWG5101 
> should be
> used in preference to (or take precedence over) RFC3805, 
> which should be
> used in preference to ISO DPA 10175, etc.  Just the 
> historical record of
> the most recent probably being the most recently thought-out. 
>  Might not
> hurt to give the programmer a hint.  
> 
> 2.  For Printer.DefaultPaperType, one might also cite 
> prtInputMediaName
> from the MIB, which contains the PaperType string of the row 
> pointed to
> by prtInputDefaultIndex.  Five mapping strings does seem excessive,
> though.  
> 
> Just a couple nits.
> 
> rick
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-wims at pwg.org [mailto:owner-wims at pwg.org] On Behalf Of
> McDonald, Ira
> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 16:34
> To: 'wims at pwg.org'
> Subject: WIMS> Posted CIM Printing Refresh v0.30 (30 Jan 2006)
> 
> Hi folks,                                       Monday (30 
> January 2006)
> 
> For review at next teleconference, I've just posted a third 
> draft of the
> PWG CIM Printing Refresh spec on the PWG FTP server at:
> 
>     ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/wd/wd-wimscimprint10-20060130.htm
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> - Ira
> 
> 
> Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect) Blue Roof Music / High
> North Inc PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
> phone: +1-906-494-2434
> email: imcdonald at sharplabs.com
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> 
> [Change Log]
> 
> 30 January 2006 (v0.30)
> - third draft
> - changed 'Status' from 'Initial' to 'Interim' (not yet 
> stable content)
> - added section 'Background' to 'Introduction' (per CIM Core WG)
> - deleted section 'Requirements' (not PWG standard-tracks document)
> - added section 'Industry Standard Printing Model' (per CIM Core WG)
> - finished second complete pass through CIM Printer class
> - expanded and verified 'MappingStrings'
> - added 'MappingStrings' to IANA Printer, Finisher, and Charset MIBs
> - deleted all 'Issue' changes for now (per WIMS WG)
> 
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