IPP> REG - Proposal for "job-recipient-name" Job Template attribute

IPP> REG - Proposal for "job-recipient-name" Job Template attribute

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Thu Sep 14 10:17:59 EDT 2000


"Hastings, Tom N" wrote:
> ...
> Now I'm more confused.  The purpose of "job-recipient-name" was NOT
> notification, but indicating who was the intended recipient of the
> hardcopy produced by a job when the intended recipient is different
> ...
> (lots of ways to use job-recipient-name to hand-deliver output to
> the recipient deleted)
> ...

You can easily mark output for a different recipient using the new
attribute.  That's basically the same as sending a cover sheet with
a fax, and will probably work well in current environments provided
there is someone to look through and distribute them.

*However*, there are situations where you might want to send a
document to someone but don't know their user name.  *That's*
what the operator/administrator keywords would address.

In addition, I think that we need to address the obvious extension
of this new attribute to notifications.  Why should IPP automate
everything *except* for something as simple as notifying the
recipient when a job is printed for him/her?  A user should be
able to subscribe to a printer object and have a notification
sent whenever a job destined for him/her has been completed.

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products                  mike at easysw.com
Printing Software for UNIX                       http://www.easysw.com



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