[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)

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Mon May 3 17:59:35 UTC 2010


On May 3, 2010, at 9:50 AM, George Liu wrote:
> Unlike PDF, which is a document format, Postscript and PCL/PCL-XL are PDL, which means printer-device specific.

PostScript and PCL *can* be device-independent as long as you stay away from obvious device-specific commands or settings. In all cases (even for PDF!) you have to make certain assumptions about supported media, margins, resolutions, and color spaces, or gather this information from other sources - see below.

> 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?

I think we are stuck treating these as languages/language families. Device-specific capability or feature information (tray numbers, etc.) has to be looked up separately. Today this means using the 1284 device ID to look up an appropriate printer driver, and for some devices this means (for example) picking between the PostScript, PCL 6, or PCL 5e driver depending on what the customer purchased.

This is one of the problems that IPP Everywhere is trying to solve, BTW...

> 
> George
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
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> 
> 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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