[Info-vax] DCPS V2.7 and Brother printers

[Dave Froble]

On 3/25/2019 3:44 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2019-03-25 19:11:02 +0000, Mark Berryman said:
>
> Fat-fingering my replies today.  Ah, well.

Oh, really?  And here I thought it was that Apple computer being sure to 
get the post entered.  You know, redundancy.

>> On 3/25/19 10:15 AM, Paul Anderson wrote:
>
> ...
>
>>> ...Really?  98%?  Back when we worked for HP, the folks who
>>> implemented IPP V1 in the printers said they weren't going to update
>>> IPP at all, as they thought IPP was not going to have much of a
>>> future.  Maybe V1 was "good enough" and that's what's in their
>>> printers today.
>>
>> Are these the same folks who said "OSI will replace TCP/IP"?
>> or "Groups with guitars are on their way out"?
>> or "Everything that can be invented has been invented"?
>> (of course, those sayings are now considered apocryphal).
>
> HP was selling iPods back then, and was also betting heavily on Itanium,
> too.

Gee, how did that work out?

:-)

Should have bet on Alpha.

> Everybody makes bad decisions.  Revisiting and correcting assumptions
> and decisions and designs that were wrong to start with, or that have
> aged out, or that have encountered changing requirements?   That's
> valuable.

So, is HP going to bring back Alpha then?

>> Every network printer I've looked at in the last 5 years supports IPP.
>> Most, if not all, support IPP Everywhere.  With IPP Everywhere, one
>> can always query the printer for its URI.
>>
>> I also haven't seen one that won't print both PDF and postscript
>> natively but I believe PDF is the only thing that is mandated.
>
> Adobe did what they could to deprecate PostScript in favor of PDF, but
> there are a lot of printers with Postscript emulation.  Including
> Brother printers, including members of the MFC series printers.
>
> How many OpenVMS apps are willing to or even capable of generating PDF?
> Donno.  That if the printing system is not performing the conversion
> during printing.
>
>> My opinion: add IPP support to DCPS quickly.
>> Consider porting CUPS to VMS somewhere down the road.
>
> As time and staff is available for printing, yes.  Reducing the need for
> printer-specific integration with support for IPP is going to be a
> benefit for support.  Roll DCPS into the base distro, too.  Make it all
> work together, and make it easier to manage.

As the wizard is fond of saying, Ayep!


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