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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:18:58 +0900
From: Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>
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Subject: [Printing-architecture] Re: The new "OpenPrinting Testing and
 Certification Program" Web Page
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To: "Petrie, Glen" <glen.petrie@eitc.epson.com>
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This page is old/obsolete (last edited Aug 2006). It needs to be updated 
with the results we obtain this Friday here in Tokyo.

    Till

Petrie, Glen wrote:
> Till,
> 
>  
> 
> I just noticed on the OpenPrinting web page a new page on "OpenPrinting 
> Testing and Certification Program" with the expressed goal
> 
>  
> 
> Here we will develop a distribution-independent testing and 
> certification program for printers and printer drivers. The goal of this 
> program is that
> 
> *LSB-certified printer + LSB-certified OS distribution = Just works!*
> 
> It should be agreed on a test program which covers use cases appropriate 
> to the printers and gives ratings on how well the functionalities of the 
> printer work with free Linux/Unix operating systems. The results should 
> be published in the linuxprinting.org printer database.
> 
> … and the section …
> 
> 
>       *Certification *
> 
> A printer should be certified by FSG OpenPrinting when it succeeds in 
> the tests and when the driver is either in the standard repertoire of 
> the distributions, downloadable as distribution-independent package from 
> linuxprinting.org or coming as distribution-independent package with the 
> printer, so that the printer installs out-of-the-box from any 
> LSB-compliant distribution.
> 
>  
> 
> I am a little surprised to see this page with goal.   At the last two 
> summit meetings, the Printer Manufactures all agreed that they did not 
> support an "OpenPrinting Testing and Certification Program" but would 
> support a “Self Validation Program”.   As a member of the Open Printing 
> Steering Committee I don’t remember the discussion of having an 
> "OpenPrinting Testing and Certification Program".  
> 
>  
> 
> Can you clarify if the page promoting a “Certification Program” or a 
> “Self-Validation Program”?   If the intent is a “Self-Validation 
> Program”, then I would encourage you to change the wording.  If the 
> intent is to be a “Certification Program” I would like to know if 
> printer manufactures are willing to support it.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> See: http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/TestingCertification
>