Open Printing Summit Summary
27 September 2007


This document is archived at:

  ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/fsg/Sept2007_OPSummit
in the files:
  Open-Printing-Summit-Summary-20070927.htm
  Open-Printing-Summit-Summary-20070927.pdf

OPS Summary - MONDAY - 24 September 2007


The full agenda of the Open Printing Summit in Montreal (with links to slides from most of the presentations) is at:

  http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/SummitMontreal

This summary was originally presented verbally at the PWG/OPS Joint Plenary in Montreal on Thursday morning 27 September 2007.



Part I: Printing System Core and Infrastructure

What is New in CUPS? (Mike Sweet, Apple)

Open Printing US/Europe (Glen Petrie, Epson)

Printing API (PAPI) (Norm Jacobs, Sun)


Topic - PDF instead of PostScript as standard print job format

Cairo Graphics Library (GNOME) for PS/PDF (Behdad Esfabohd, Cairo)

Generating perfectly text-extractable PDF (Behdad Esfahbod, Cairo)

OP Japan CUPS PDF Filters (Yasumasa Toratani, Canon)

Foomatic 4.0: PDF Workflow and XML with DTDs (Till Kamppeter, LF)

OPS Summary - TUESDAY - 25 September 2007


Part II: Printing on the Desktop: GUI and Applications

KDE Printing (Cristian Tibirna, Maintainer KDE Print)

GNOME Printing: Behdad Esfahbod (Cairo/Pango)

Common Printing Dialog (Peter Sikking, Open Usability)

LSB 3.2 and 4.0: Printing Infrastructure (Jeff Licquia, LF)


Topic - Printer Setup Tools

system-config-printer (Till Kamppeter, LF)

YaST (Johannes Meixner, SUSE/Novell)

Printer Drake (Marcelo Leitner, Mandriva)


Part III: Printer Drivers and Printer Validation

OP Japan Vector Driver (Yasumasa Toratani, Canon)

Distribution-Independent Driver Packages (Till Kamppeter, LF)

OPS Summary - WEDNESDAY - 26 September 2007


Topic - Driver Development Reports since last OPS

HP Linux Drivers (Shiyun Yie and Raghothama Cauligi, HP)

HP Linux Binary Plug-Ins (David Welch, HP)

Canon Printer Driver for Linux (Yasumasa Toratani, Canon)

SUSE Print Management (Johannes Meixner, SUSE/Novell)

Third-Party Printing Driver Development (Hin-Tak Leung)


Topic - Printer Driver Validation

Printer Driver Validation (Yasumasa Toratani, Canon)


Part IV: The OpenPrinting Summit 2007 is Over - Final Thoughts

OPS Wrap-up

OPS Messages to Manufacturers

OPS Summary - Open Printing Project Status for 2007

This section updates last year's presentation at the PWG/OPS Joint Plenary in Lexington in October 2006.

OP Reference Model - stable

OP DSH (Directory Structure and Hierarchy) - completed

OP PAPI (Print API) - completed

OP JTAPI (Job Ticket API) - completed

OP PDAPI (Print Driver API, aka OPVP) - nearly complete

OP PCMAPI (Print Channel Manager API) - work-in-progress

OP SMAPI (Status Monitoring API) - work-in-progress

OP PCAPI (Printer Capabilities API) - proposed

OP DDAPI (Device Discovery API) - proposed

OP TFMAPI (Transform API) - proposed