RE: WIMS> Posted CIM Printing Refresh v0.30 (30 Jan 2006)

From: McDonald, Ira (imcdonald@sharplabs.com)
Date: Wed Feb 15 2006 - 17:34:07 EST

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    Hi Rick,

    THANKS!

    Hey, one more element in a MappingString seems fine to me.

    Cheers,
    - Ira

    Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
    Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
    PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839
    phone: +1-906-494-2434
    email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Richard_Landau@Dell.com [mailto:Richard_Landau@Dell.com]
    > Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 3:31 PM
    > To: imcdonald@sharplabs.com; wims@pwg.org
    > Subject: RE: WIMS> Posted CIM Printing Refresh v0.30 (30 Jan 2006)
    >
    >
    > Ira, looked at the Refresh at some length. Great detail in there.
    > Didn't see any oddities. A couple really minor things.
    >
    > 1. For Printer.PaperTypesAvailable, the lists of paper type strings,
    > developed over many years, are sort of all over the place. Should we
    > state which lists supersede which other lists? E.g., PWG5101
    > should be
    > used in preference to (or take precedence over) RFC3805,
    > which should be
    > used in preference to ISO DPA 10175, etc. Just the
    > historical record of
    > the most recent probably being the most recently thought-out.
    > Might not
    > hurt to give the programmer a hint.
    >
    > 2. For Printer.DefaultPaperType, one might also cite
    > prtInputMediaName
    > from the MIB, which contains the PaperType string of the row
    > pointed to
    > by prtInputDefaultIndex. Five mapping strings does seem excessive,
    > though.
    >
    > Just a couple nits.
    >
    > rick
    >
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: owner-wims@pwg.org [mailto:owner-wims@pwg.org] On Behalf Of
    > McDonald, Ira
    > Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 16:34
    > To: 'wims@pwg.org'
    > Subject: WIMS> Posted CIM Printing Refresh v0.30 (30 Jan 2006)
    >
    > Hi folks, Monday (30
    > January 2006)
    >
    > For review at next teleconference, I've just posted a third
    > draft of the
    > PWG CIM Printing Refresh spec on the PWG FTP server at:
    >
    > ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/wd/wd-wimscimprint10-20060130.htm
    >
    >
    > Cheers,
    > - Ira
    >
    >
    > Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect) Blue Roof Music / High
    > North Inc PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839
    > phone: +1-906-494-2434
    > email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com
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    >
    > [Change Log]
    >
    > 30 January 2006 (v0.30)
    > - third draft
    > - changed 'Status' from 'Initial' to 'Interim' (not yet
    > stable content)
    > - added section 'Background' to 'Introduction' (per CIM Core WG)
    > - deleted section 'Requirements' (not PWG standard-tracks document)
    > - added section 'Industry Standard Printing Model' (per CIM Core WG)
    > - finished second complete pass through CIM Printer class
    > - expanded and verified 'MappingStrings'
    > - added 'MappingStrings' to IANA Printer, Finisher, and Charset MIBs
    > - deleted all 'Issue' changes for now (per WIMS WG)
    >
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    >

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