Printer Working Group Overview for WSDM January 20, 2005 Harry Lewis IBM Printing Systems Chairman – Printer Working Group
PWG Background Standard Printer MIB –RFC 1759 –RFC 3805 Internet Printing Protocol –CUPS Print Spool (Linux, Max OS-X) Common Semantic Model –Early interaction with DMTF (MIB-MIF, CIM) –Cross industry Low-end (Bluetooth Print SIG, UPnP Print) High-end (JDF Workflow, Print On Demand Initiative) –Model and schema specifications Print Services Interface –Web Services interface for printing Web-based Imaging Management Services –Enterprise fleet management –Counters (model and schema) for use-based billing scenarios
Agfa Monotype Apple Computer, Inc. Bitstream Canon, Inc. Codehost Easy Software Products Epson Portland, Inc. Fuji Xerox Hewlett-Packard IBM Corporation Intermate A/S Komatsu Konica Minolta Kyocera Corporation Lexmark International Microsoft Netsilicon NexPress Northlake Software, Inc. Novell Oasis Semiconductor Peerless Systems Networking PrinterOn Ricoh Samsung Electronics Sharp Labs of America Silex Technology Software Imaging Xerox Corporation Zoran Imaging Division PWG Member Companies (30)
Fleet Management Components
Web Services Protocol
WIMS Counters Snippet prtMarkerIndex prtMarkerCounterUnit prtMarkerLifeCount prtMarkerPowerOnCount PrtViewMarkerStatus prtMarkerSuppliesIndex prtMarkerSuppliesSupply Unit prtMarkerSuppliesMaxCa pacity prtMarkerSuppliesLevel PrtViewMarkerSupplies Status SNMP Attribute XML Schema ViewXML Elements
Need to Do Re-Align PWG Semantic Model and CIM Call for PWG members to prototype WSDM Links (docs at various levels of maturity) –WIMS Protocol spec ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/wd/wd-wims pdf –WIMS related schema ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/schemas/ (see rfc3805a xsd and rfc3805b xsd) –Counter Spec ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/wd/wd-wimscount pdf –Counter MIB ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/mibs/counter-mib txt