Re: [IPP] RFC: print-quality-percent (integer(0:100))

Michael Sweet via ipp <ipp@pwg.org> Wed, 28 August 2019 21:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [IPP] RFC: print-quality-percent (integer(0:100))
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Smith,

I do understand the appeal that some vendors have for adding more knobs to differentiate their products, however I can tell you from a client perspective that Apple is extremely unlikely to support arbitrary vendor print quality values since it makes for a bad user experience.


> On Aug 28, 2019, at 4:04 PM, Kennedy, Smith (Wireless & Standards Architect) <smith.kennedy@hp.com> wrote:
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> Hi Mike,
> 
> The only problem I see is that vendor- or site-defined print quality values, printer vendors likely want labels that can at least uniquely identify the additional settings, and that could have corresponding _tooltip and _helpurl content.
> 
> Smith
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> /**
>     Smith Kennedy
>     HP Inc.
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>> On Aug 28, 2019, at 1:33 PM, Michael Sweet via ipp <ipp@pwg.org> wrote:
>> 
>> All,
>> 
>> As an alternative to adding more (out of order) enum values to print-quality, how about a print-quality-percent (integer(0:100)) attribute where:
>> 
>> - print-quality-percent='25' maps to print-quality='3' (draft),
>> - print-quality-percent='50' maps to print-quality='4' (normal), and
>> - print-quality-percent='75' maps to print-quality='5' (high5)
>> 
>> Thoughts?
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