Conformance of printers' IPP implementations

John A. Murdie john at cs.york.ac.uk
Fri Nov 25 03:24:46 PST 2005


> John A. Murdie wrote:
> > ...
> > If I'm forced to abandon HP printers after all, is there somewhere I
> > can find information about the conformance of various manufacturers'
> > implementations of IPP to the standard - and checklists showing which
> > non-mandatory IPP features are implemented by each make and model of
> > printer? Perhaps there should be (say) a `www.ipp.org' (that web
> > address is actually used by the Illinois Prairie Path organisation!)
> > to which we could all contribute our findings about the IPP
> > conformance of our printers?
>
> The official web page for IPP is:
>
>      http://www.pwg.org/ipp/
>
> That said, you can also create an article on the CUPS site (all you
> need is a login) and update the text as needed.

Under pwg.org's 'Testing' section there is a list of commercial IPP implementations, with some information about coarse-grained conformance to the standard. It would seem, though, that there is room for some more detailed information.

Can a cups.org article behave as a wiki, or can only the original author make subsequent alterations to the article?

John A. Murdie




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