[Pwg-Announce] Call for Review of langPDF/PS/PCL variants for IANAPrinter MIB (30 April 2010)

[Pwg-Announce] Call for Review of langPDF/PS/PCL variants for IANAPrinter MIB (30 April 2010)

George Liu george.liu at ricoh-tech.com
Mon May 3 16:50:42 UTC 2010


Unlike PDF, which is a document format, Postscript and PCL/PCL-XL are PDL, which means printer-device specific.

A Tray-1 PCL command for HP printer means Bypass Tray, but means the first tray under the printer engine for Ricoh printer.
Also, in Postscript, there are many vendor specific Postscript setpagedevice commands. 

How will the new command set definition handles this case?

Are we only taking about the graphics drawing part not the device control part?
Or are we making "langPCL5e" only for a specific vender?

George


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From: pwg-announce-bounces at pwg.org [mailto:pwg-announce-bounces at pwg.org] On Behalf Of Ira McDonald
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 7:56 AM
To: pwg-announce at pwg.org; Michael R Sweet; Ira McDonald
Subject: [Pwg-Announce] Call for Review of langPDF/PS/PCL variants for IANAPrinter MIB (30 April 2010)

Hi,

This call for review will end on Friday 14 May 2010.

ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/pmp/iana/langpdf-20100414.txt
- full text also below in my previous note

Before registering these PDF, PostScript, and PCL printer
language variants with IANA, your IETF Designated Experts
(Mike Sweet and Ira McDonald) would like to solicit any last
comments or additions from the larger PWG community.

The two major use cases for these language variants are:

(1) Driver installation based on 1284 Device ID strings
      - i.e., selecting appropriate device drivers during
      local or network printer installation

(2) Content generation based on 1284 Device ID strings
      - i.e., generating the correct subset of a language in
      an intelligent application generating print-ready output

Please take a few minutes to review and comment.

Cheers,
- Ira (IETF Designated Expert for IANA Printer MIB)


Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG
Co-Chair - TCG Hardcopy WG
IETF Designated Expert - IPP & Printer MIB
Blue Roof Music/High North Inc
http://sites.google.com/site/blueroofmusic
http://sites.google.com/site/highnorthinc
mailto:blueroofmusic at gmail.com
winter:
  579 Park Place  Saline, MI  48176
  734-944-0094
summer:
  PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI 49839
  906-494-2434


On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> [For review at WIMS WG teleconference on 19 April 2010]
>
>
> Added PCL3GUI in this second draft, per Mike Sweet's comment.
>
> Per requests from Linux Foundation Open Printing WG and Jerry
> Thrasher (Lexmark), I just posted proposed text for new values of
> PrtInterpreterLangFamilyTC in the IANA Printer MIB at:
>
>  ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/pmp/iana/langpdf-20100414.txt
>
> These values specify variants of the PDF, PostScript, and PCL
> printer languages, for machine-readable clarity (since the other
> version fields in prtInterpreterTable in IETF Printer MIB are NOT
> standardized and are therefore NOT reliably machine-readable).
>
> Full text is also included below (hint - view in a fixed width font).
>
> Cheers,
> - Ira (IETF Designated Expert for IANA Printer MIB)
>
> ------------------------------------------
> Permanent enumerated name/value registrations for IANA Printer MIB
>
> In PrtInterpreterLangFamilyTC, delete comma after 'langXHTMLPrint(71)'
> and add the following:
>
>       langPDFis(72),       -- Not in RFC 3805
>                            -- PWG PDF Image-Streamable (PWG 5102.3)
>                            -- ftp://pwg.org/pub/pwg/candidates/
>                            --   cs-ifxpdfis10-20040315-5102.3.pdf
>                            -- See also 'langPDF'
>       langPDF13(73),       -- Not in RFC 3805
>                            -- Adobe Portable Document Format v1.3
>                            -- http://www.adobe.com/devnet/
>                            --   pdf/pdfs/PDFReference13.pdf
>                            -- See also 'langPDF'
>       langPDF14(74),       -- Not in RFC 3805
>                            -- Adobe Portable Document Format v1.4
>                            -- http://www.adobe.com/devnet/
>                            --   pdf/pdfs/PDFReference.pdf
>                            -- See also 'langPDF'
>       langPDF15(75),       -- Not in RFC 3805
>                            -- Adobe Portable Document Format v1.5
>                            -- http://www.adobe.com/devnet/
>                            --   pdf/pdfs/PDFReference15_v5.pdf
>                            -- See also 'langPDF'
>       langPDF16(76),       -- Not in RFC 3805
>                            -- Adobe Portable Document Format v1.6
>                            -- http://www.adobe.com/devnet/
>                            --   pdf/pdfs/PDFReference16.pdf
>                            -- See also 'langPDF'
>       langPDF17(77),       -- Not in RFC 3805
>                            -- Adobe Portable Document Format v1.7
>                            -- http://www.adobe.com/devnet/
>                            --   acrobat/pdfs/pdf_reference_1-7.pdf
>                            -- Equivalent to ISO 32000-1:2008
>                            -- See also 'langPDF'
>       langPS2(78),         -- Not in RFC 3805
>                            -- Adobe PostScript Second Edition
>                            -- http://partners.adobe.com/public/
>                            --   developer/en/ps/psrefman.pdf
>                            -- See also 'langPS'
>       langPS3(79),         -- Not in RFC 3805
>                            -- Adobe PostScript Third Edition
>                            -- http://www.adobe.com/products/
>                            --   postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf
>                            -- See also 'langPS'
>       langPCL3(80),        -- Not in RFC 3805
>                            -- HP Printer Command Language 3
>                            -- No technical reference manual online
>                            -- See also 'langPCL'
>       langPCL3GUI(81),     -- Not in RFC 3805
>                            -- HP Printer Command Language 3 GUI
>                            -- No technical reference manual online
>                            -- See also 'langPCL'
>       langPCL5e(82),       -- Not in RFC 3805
>                            -- HP Printer Command Language 5 Enhanced
>                            -- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/
>                            --   support/SupportManual/bpl13210/
>                            --   bpl13210.pdf
>                            -- See also 'langPCL'
>       langPCL5c(83)        -- Not in RFC 3805
>                            -- HP Printer Command Language 5 Color
>                            -- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/
>                            --   support/SupportManual/bpl13212/
>                            --   bpl13212.pdf
>                            -- See also 'langPCL'
>
> Proposed: Ira McDonald (High North) and Jerry Thrasher (Lexmark)
> Reviewed: Email discussion on Printer MIB mailing list
> Approved: <TBD>
> By:       Ira McDonald (IETF Designated Expert for IANA Printer MIB)
> Email:    blueroofmusic at gmail.com
>

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