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From: andrea@hp-sdd.HP.COM (Andrea K. Frankel)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.misc,comp.protocols.iso,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Standard for Printers
Message-ID: <1039@hp-sdd.HP.COM>
Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 18:20:57 EST
Article-I.D.: hp-sdd.1039
Posted: Tue Nov 24 18:20:57 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Nov-87 06:00:38 EST
References: <135@tsdiag.UUCP>
Reply-To: andrea@hp-sdd.UUCP (Andrea K. Frankel)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, San Diego Division
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In article <135@tsdiag.UUCP> tom@tsdiag.UUCP writes:
>
>THIS IS A FORWARDED MESSAGE Follows is the *REAL* header:
>From: n2dsy@hou2d.UUCP (G.BEATTIE)
>
>I have been looking around for something similar to the
>ANSI X3.64 Terminal Protocol Specification for printers
>or printing terminals.   I guess that in some "ideal"
>world we would have something analogous to the Virtual
>Terminal Protocol for printers, but I am willing and
>seeking suggestions regarding printer standards for
>simple and medium-complexity printers.

ECMA has a task group working on printer formats; their current
proposal is called a "Standard Page Description Language" which
can be translated to actual PDL's such as Postscript or printer
languages such as PCL.  Presumably a "standard PDL" could be 
implemented directly in a printer in the future.

The ISO committee TC97/SC18 (and the corresponding ANSC X3V1)
are also working in this area.  

You can contact ANSI in New York to get a contact for X3V1
committee work; that should give you an in to the other groups
as well.

Andrea Frankel, Hewlett-Packard (San Diego Division) (619) 592-4664
                "...like a song that's born to soar the sky"
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