"Hastings, Tom N" wrote:
> ...
> But in IPP/1.1 "media" isn't a 1setOf value, its a single value. So
> we are confused by your response.
Hmmmm.... For some reason we have implemented it as a 1setof all along
in CUPS; maybe that was changed in some of the later 1.0 drafts, but
we appear to have an even more serious problem: the media specifier is
used to specify media size, type, and source (tray). However, this
mechanism is not sufficient for specifying all three items (which is
needed for many printers.) So basically, the current spec allows you
to select only one of up to three values that must be specified to
get correct output on some printers.
Soooo, it looks like (for now) we're going to have to add "media"
to a (getting longer) list of "extended" attribute syntaxes for
CUPS...
FWIW, adding keywords or names that enumerate all possible
combinations is simply not feasible - for a simple inkjet printer that
supports a dozen media sizes and types you are looking at 100+
"supported" values alone; a LJ4000 would up that number to a little
over 500... The 1setof approach is the only one that makes sense
(short of separating the attribute into media-type, media-source,
and media-size, which makes a whole lot more sense)
> ...
> The simplest way to get document separator sheets would be to add a
> keyword value to the "job-sheets" Job Template attribute that
> indicates that document start sheets are wanted.
But WHICH start sheets????? *Real* printing needs to support user-
specified start, end, and insert sheets; while this is often out of
the scope of a simple embedded implementation of IPP, any printing
system interface (e.g. CUPS) *does* need to support it, and we
shouldn't have to come up with a lot of non-standard extensions to
do it!
> There is also a PWG Document and Page Exceptions spec that allows a
> client to submit a job and specify any Job Template attribute, such
> as media for each document and/or for specific page ranges within
> documents. Its available at:
That is one possible implementation we're looking at for a future
release, but at the moment we are going for basic functionality and
1.1 compliance.
-- ______________________________________________________________________ Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products mike@easysw.com Printing Software for UNIX http://www.easysw.com
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