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From: ccruss@pollux (Russ Hobby)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: TCP/IP printing protocol
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Date: 10 Jan 90 18:18:50 GMT
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Currently there is no offical TCP/IP protocol for printing, and there is
a need. Amoung UNIX systems lpr is used a lot. Several printer vendors have 
their own protocols. 

I am in search of people interested in this problem to form an IETF Working
Group to come up with a good network printer protocol.  Some of the things that
the protocol would need to consider are:
   1) Authentication/security/accounting
   2) Printing modes and options (Postscript, plain text, page/line size,...)
   3) Scheduling priorities
   4) Begin/end job control
   5) Printers that are directly connected to a network or through a host.

If you are interested in working on such a protocol or just have some good
ideas, let me know.

Russ Hobby                              INTERNET: rdhobby@ucdavis.edu  
IETF Area Director - Applications       BITNET:   RDHOBBY@UCDAVIS  
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