UPD Mail Archive: Re: UPD> Amendment to UPD

Re: UPD> Amendment to UPD

Harry Lewis (harryl@us.ibm.com)
Thu, 5 Nov 1998 14:06:00 -0500

Skandia, I believe that, today, the Printer MIB addresses most of your =
concerns
and is widely supported.

Harry Lewis - IBM Printing Systems
harryl@us.ibm.com

owner-upd@pwg.org on 11/05/98 06:19:09 AM
Please respond to owner-upd@pwg.org
To: upd@pwg.org, sandram@boi.hp.com
cc:
Subject: UPD> Amendment to UPD

Sandra,
I hope you welcome influences outside the PWG/UPD circle of people.

Within the UPD-specs are that the printer dynamically should be able to=

configure/reconfigure the UPD-driver on the host-side. I.e, the printer=

tells the printer driver how it is configured to relieve the end user/a=
dmin
person from doing this task and keep them out of trouble.

This dynamic configuration calls for a "configuration"-metalanguage to =
be
defined that the UPD/operating system can interpret.

It would be of equal of worth to be able to do configuration the other =
way
around. I.e configure the PRINTER through a standard metalanguage, thin=
gs
like turning network protocolls on/off, set printer defaults and more.

Would it be impossible for you, or some other PWG group, to put into
your/their scope of work to define a standard "printer
configuration"-metalanguage that all printers could interpret. As it is=
now
it is a jungle. There are postscript snippets, vendor proprietary langu=
ages,
private SNMP MIBs, HTTP and other ways to configure the actual printer.=

There could be a multiple of ways to send this configuration file to th=
e
printer. Either do a copy over the parallell port or send the file over=
the
network via lpr, ftp or do a automatic download via bootp/tftp.

Kind regards Krister Sv=E4rd

Skandia Utdata Teknik Telefon: +46 8 788 28 87
S-103 50 STOCKHOLM Mobil: +46 70 689 28 87
E-mail: krister.svard@skandia.se
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