Oakland, CA — (press release excerpt) — The Free Standards Group has launched a new workgroup aimed at creating a standardized, scalable printing architecture and high-level requirements for printing systems. The OpenPrinting Workgroup is open to both industry and community participants to address the needs of desktop to enterprise-ready printing, including management, reliability, security, scalability,… printer feature access and network accessibility.

The OpenPrinting Workgroup is in the process of creating a series of modular standards that can be used individually or as a group, depending on the end users' needs. This approach allows for true scalability of features that include security, automated device discovery, printer access control and automated enabling of printing resources across a network.

Shawn Pratt, Project Manager at Hewlett-Packard, Inc. has been named as Interim Workgroup Chair of the OpenPrinting Workgroup. Mr. Pratt is in charge of leading the creation of a roadmap for the standards, which will encompass the needs of individual users, networks from large to small, Internet printing and mobile devices.

Printing standards for Linux ensure that Linux and Linux-based software will have the structure necessary to address the advanced needs of enterprise-level printing needs, creating yet another indispensable tool for Linux. Information on the OpenPrinting Workgroup and how to join can be found here.

 
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