From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <43C59319.7080003@Sun.COM> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:22:01 -0600 From: Norm Jacobs MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [Printing-architecture] [Fwd: [Desktop_printing] Printing Summit is set] List-Id: Printing architecture under linux List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: printing-sc@base3.freestandards.org, printing-architecture@freestandards.org For those of you who didn't attend the desktop printing summit planning telecon, I am including the contents of a couple of email messages that pretty much summarize the areas of discussion (date/location, agenda). The short version is that the summit looks like it will happen on April 10-12 in Atlanta, GA, USA. This is the week after the PWG/P2600 meeting and LWE. I would like to get people's thoughts on making this an FSG OpenPrinting face to face meeting, having a joint PWG/FSG OpenPrinting plenary at the end of the PWG/P2600 meeting and/or having one at a PWG meeting later in the year (possibly October). I know that there was more to add to this discussion, but I'm all meeting'd out today. -Norm -------- Original Message -------- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:49:41 -0800 From: John Cherry Subject: [Desktop_printing] Printing Summit is set Thanks to those that attended the call this morning and helped us to settle on a time and location for the OSDL Printing Summit. Date: April 10-12 Location: Atlanta, GA (Lanier facility) April 10-12 is the week after LinuxWorld Expo, so hopefully this will allow some that travel across the pond to make a single trans-atlantic flight. More logistical information will be coming out as they are nailed down, but you should be able to mark your calendars and start making travel arrangements where it makes sense. Invitations with the latest logistical information will be out prior to January 20. The following is a list of names that have been contacted and/or on the desktop_printing list. Please let me know if there are others that should be informed or invited to the summit. Robert Krawitz Mike Sweet Grant Taylor Patrick Powell George Liu Hitoshi Sekine Shiyun Yie David Suffield Cristian Tibirna Jody Goldberg Kurt Pfeifle Masatoshi Kadota Yves van Belle Hin-Tak Leung Marti Maria Kai-Uwe Behrmann Graeme Gill Claudia Alimpich Norm Jacobs Ira McDonald Glen Petrie Ralph Giles Raph Levien Olaf Meeuwissen Ulrich Wehner David Chamberlin Markus Brauer Johannes Meixner Klaus Singvogel Tim Waugh Yorick Chan Alex BANH Roger So Jeff Waugh Jonathan Riddell Bastian, Waldo Owen Taylor Patrice Lagrange Dov Isaacs Anders Lund F.J.Cruz John Cherry Till Kamppeter Derek Noonburg Kristian Høgsberg Brad Hards Jonathan Blandford Martin Kretzschmar Jeff Muizelaar Leonard Rosenthol Peter Wyatt wendyp AT sun.com Albert Astals Cid Cristian Tibirna Carl Worth John Palmieri Takaaki Higuchi Cheers, John Till Kamppeter wrote: > Here is the originally suggested agenda with some points mentioned on > the mailing list added: > > John Cherry wrote: > >> The starting point for the Open Printing Summit agenda is: >> >> 1. Making printing user friendly - it should just work >> * Usability >> * Consistent methods for printing, job handling, and printer >> administration > > > * "Printing as a desktop service" - non-native apps and apps > from ISV should use standard printing dialog from KDE/GNOME > (Kurt Pfeifle) > >> 2. Hardware support >> * Drivers and PPDs, preferably from printer manufacturers and free >> software >> * Plug and Print (not plug and play; plug the printer and play for >> hours with different drivers) >> * Auto-download and auto-install of drivers > > > * Certification of printers working with distros (Waldo Bastian) Also reference previous quicky form I posted... >> 3. OpenPrinting.org implementation >> 4. CUPS 1.2 integration with desktops, apps, drivers, distros, etc. > > > 5. Transition of job transfer format from PS to PDF (Till Kamppeter, > Mike Sweet) > > + More portable > + High color depth, color management PostScript also supports high color depth and color management, just not as easy... > + Easy post-processing (N-up, booklet, scaling, page reordering, > ...) > + Transparency support PostScript also supports transparency, it just isn't as easy... > + Smaller files > + Better interoperability with Mac OS X > ? Free software support: GhostScript vs. XPDF (how well > maintained? Is newest software version free?) > - Free software has to implement all new features which Adobe is > adding to PDF, PostScript is "finished". PDF is also used for international standards and printing/prepress; we could just standardize on a particular version of PDF (e.g. PDF/is) rather than chasing the latest version of PDF. Other points: - PDF is already supported by CUPS - Current path for PS printers is: pdftops -> pstops -> printer - Future path for PDF-capable printers is: pdftopdf -> printer - Current path for raster printers is: pdftops -> pstops -> pstoraster -> printerdriver -> printer - Future path for raster printers is: pdftoraster -> printerdriver -> printer - Add discussion of job ticket stuff, and embedding them in PDF. I can do a presentation on this... > 6. Modularizing built-in drivers of GhostScript (Till Kamppeter) > > + Easy change of printing workflow without loosing hardware > support (exchange renderer version, transfer format, simplified > workflow for embedded ...) It is worth noting that this can be done over time - the existing driver will still work in the short term without changes... > 7. Did I forget anything important which we discussed on the list? > > - Please post ASAP > - Please mention on phone meeting Also: - Writing printer drivers - CUPS DDK, IJS, etc?