[IPP] Canonical IPP way to set job-sheets to a different paper/tray/medium?

[IPP] Canonical IPP way to set job-sheets to a different paper/tray/medium?

Ira McDonald blueroofmusic at gmail.com
Tue Dec 11 16:14:54 UTC 2018


Hi Smith,

Except that Client-side banner pages can't include info known only to the
Printer
(which typically is included in banner pages) such as actual time of
printing.

Cheers,
- Ira

Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Co-Chair - TCG Trusted Mobility Solutions WG
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On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 11:05 AM Kennedy, Smith (Wireless & Standards
Architect) <smith.kennedy at hp.com> wrote:

> If the Printer supported IPP "overrides", it might also be possible for a
> driver upstream of the IPP client to support this as a "driver feature" by
> adding a page to the start and/or end of the Job's Document and using
> "overrides" to specify the media source / type for the added banner pages.
>
> On Dec 10, 2018, at 3:33 PM, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
>
> There isn't anything specifically you can do in CUPS for the banners - it
> will use the same paper/tray settings for the banners as for the rest of
> the job.
>
> There is a job-sheets-col attribute (defined in PWG 5100.3: Production
> Printing Attributes - Set 1) that provides more control.  At present this
> attribute is not supported by CUPS.
>
>
> On Dec 10, 2018, at 5:17 PM, pipitas <pipitas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What is the canonical IPP-ish way to request printing of a job-sheet on
> different media (or media drawn from a different paper tray)?
>
> I remember many years ago to have hacked some PostScript files for a big
> institutional customer who required red separator sheets because thousands
> of their students shared a few dozen "public" printers: I then equipped the
> PostScript/banner files with some 'setpagedevice' statements, saved them to
> /usr/share/cups/banners/ and, presto, whenever such a sheet was requested
> it printed from the paper tray specified by setpagedevice.
>
> Is there an IPP-defined job attribute that lets me order job-sheets to be
> printed on a specific medium?
>
> Now that modern CUPS doesn't by default use banners/job-sheets any more
> which are PostScript files, what is another valid way to do achieve this
> with PDF files (or even with application/vnd.cups-banner files)?
>
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