Roger K deBry
Senior Techncial Staff Member
Architecture and Technology
IBM Printing Systems
email: rdebry@us.ibm.com
phone: 1-303-924-4080
If existing print drivers are considered "today's technology", then
today's technology won't know anything about IPP, correct?
Perhaps I'm missing something, then. Does anyone think that IPP is
being designed such that today's print drivers can submit jobs to
an IPP Printer?
RKD> Yes, in most environments there is
RKD> a separate component that actually
RKD> handles the wire protocol. In various
RKD> systems these are called a port driver,
RKD> port monitor, or redirector. While existing
RKD> print drivers would not have to be changed
RKD> to work with IPP, these components would.
Maybe that's where I'm getting confused. I'm making the assumption
that to drive an IPP Printer, you need an IPP-aware print driver.
Is this assumption incorrect?
...jay