Precedence of OpPolicy in Class and Printer

Vince McIntyre vincent.mcintyre at gmail.com
Thu May 31 23:50:20 PDT 2012


> Vince,
>
> If a job is submitted to a class, the class's policy is used.
>
> If a job is submitted to a printer, the printer's policy is used.
>
> If there is no named policy in the class or printer definition, then the default policy applies.
>
> Operation policies can be shared between multiple printers/classes.
>
> Each policy is self-contained - there is no inheritance (although there is a bug for that...) and if a class and the printers it contains have different policies, you can end up with some interesting behaviors...
>

Thanks for this - perfect clarity. I feel the text above would be a useful addition, just as it is, to the last section of policies.html.

Thanks again for your time.
Vince





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