Harry Lewis - IBM Printing Systems
harryl@us.ibm.com
owner-pwg-announce@pwg.org on 11/05/98 11:10:33 AM
Please respond to owner-pwg-announce@pwg.org
To: sandram@boi.hp.com, pwg-announce@pwg.org
cc:
Subject: Re: PWG-ANNOUNCE> vote on UPDF Charter
Sandra,
Although there is good descriptive text in the Abstract, in my opinion,=
the
bulleted goals are too nebulous. Hopefully, the the UPDF work will resu=
lt
in reduced development time, simplified installation, etc. but I believ=
e
the listed goals should be more definite, describing what will actually=
be
created by the effort, such as:
Goals of UPDF:
* To define a universal printer description file format that enables a
printer driver to configure itself based on the unique printer
characteristics.
* To design or specify a description format that can be used by multipl=
e
operating systems.
* To enable dynamic configuration of printers via bi-directional commun=
ication
of configuration information.
* To support the largest possible number of existing printers.
* To provide extremely flexible mechanisms for extensibility to enable =
support
for as yet unimagined printers and features.
Since this effort used to be called Universal Printer Driver, perhaps i=
t would
also be useful to include some more descriptive text in addition to the=
currently terse "Also out of scope is the definition of the Universal P=
rinter
Driver", stating how this effort may relate to a Universal Printer Driv=
er.
Just my two cents.
Thanks,
Stuart
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Printer Division Lafayette, CA 94549
stuart.rowley@kyocera.com 925 299-7206 Fax: 925 299-2489
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Subject: PWG-ANNOUNCE> vote on UPDF Charter
Author: Sandra Matts <sandram@boi.hp.com> at ~internet
Date: 11/3/98 2:42 PM
Hi All,
I've copied the Charter to the UPD ftp archive. Please
read it and let me know if it conveys our goal of UPDF or not.
If it you don't agree - let me know by Thursday or Friday at the latest=
.
If no one replies - I'm assuming the PWG Wed meeting participates will =
vote
affirmatively for the Charter.
Sandra Matts
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Hewlett-Packard
11311 Chinden Blvd.
Boise, ID 83714
sandram@boi.hp.com
(208) 396-4755
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