Network Printing Requirements

Charles Bazaar <cbazaar@emulex.com> Fri, 24 July 1992 19:09 UTC

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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 11:57:59 -0700
From: Charles Bazaar <cbazaar@emulex.com>
Message-Id: <9207241857.AA06618@emulex.emulex.com>
To: print-wg@pa.dec.com
Subject: Network Printing Requirements

Resourse pour clients are important to us, but just as important is status
information.

Most current spooling implementations (lpr/lpd for instance) do not take into
consideration status information available from the physical device.  
Much of this is probably due to the inability of the parallel interface to
provide returned information.

With new bi-directional parallel interface proposals pending, a new lpr/lpd
proposal should have the capability to accept and/or query for status info.

Of course there remains questions of how this information would be made 
available to applications (spoolers, word processing pgms, etc.)


Charles Bazaar
bazaar@emulex.com