Smith,
> On Oct 28, 2019, at 12:05 PM, Kennedy, Smith (Wireless & IPP Standards) <smith.kennedy at hp.com> wrote:
>> Hi Mike,
>> All 3 of the “likely scenarios” below don’t satisfy the user’s expectations.
Generally #1 is addressed in the Client UI so that the scaling behavior is explicit (and thus matching user expectations...) But in the absence of explicit intent I would argue that the Printer has no way to know what the user's expectations are and I would expect 3 users to give 4 different expectations of this scenario... :/
> If we went with imposition-template and ‘finishings-col” to cut out the pages, that starts to turn into specifying a “process”.
There is always a bit of process/intent mixing with finishings - the key here is that you aren't telling the printer the order of operations, just the list of operations that are needed to satisfy the user's explicit intent.
> I suppose a Preset could be used, but that seems awkward. Can you speak more about the “queueing and nesting” from “the old days”? Was that via IPP or using something else?
That was a DesignJet setting on the printer's console you enabled, and then the HP-GL/2 jobs you sent from your computer would be ordered, rotated, etc. to best use the roll. Basically, open AutoCAD and then plot each of the layers/designs separately, then the printer would combine them all on the roll. Also worked for HP-RTL if you had enough memory/hard drive space on the DesignJet...
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer