Printing & Imaging Update John Ritchie Intel Staff Engineer

Overview Imaging Working Committee Objectives Participants Consumer Enablement Vision Experiences Utilizing a Network Digital Entertainment Scenarios (2) Photo Printing Features Schedule Call to Action

Working Committee Objectives Focused on the UPnP v1.0 Architecture to define the following:  Define extensions to the existing PrintBasic:1 service to address photo printing needs Customer Wants Customer Does Not Want

Working Committee Participants Canon Epson HP Intel Kodak Lexmark Microsoft NetSilicon Nokia Olympus Panasonic Philips Ricoh Samsung

Long-Term Consumer Enablement Vision Satellite Terrestrial Cable PC/productivityCommunications Home Control and Automation Radio and TV Media Internet Data, Media Residential Gateway Hot Spots Home Mobile Online Services Starbucks Internet Access Services Printing & Imaging Services Online Kiosks Hot Spot Gateway Cell Station Enabled Devices: Can be interacted- with over the Web Consistent user experience Standards-based content transport Handheld/ Phone Entertainment Car

Digital Photography Experiences Utilizing a Network Consumer ITDigital Entertainment Wireless Camera Connected Home *Digital TV *DV/DVR Portable Photo Viewer Media Storage Remote Printing Personal & Paid Content Delivery Mobile Imaging Shared Printing Wireless Camera Media Receiver

Digital Entertainment Scenarios (1) UPnP v1: UPnP allows a Control Point to discover a device on the network UPnP Print allows printing without a print driver. UPnP AV allows rich digital media i.e. Photos to be discovered and rendered. 1) Mobile Digital Entertainment Devices join network - -View, Edit, Print, & Store Photographs WiFi Camera Phone, PDA, Mobile Entertainment Card to TV

Digital Entertainment Scenarios (2) 2) Photos from PC to living room - -View, Store, and Print Media Server Media Renderer

Printer Device The PrintBasic:1 Service is mandatory in a Printer Device. PrintBasic:2 is optional.

PrintBasic:1 vs. PrintBasic:2 PrintBasic:1 enables printing from a control point to a UPnP Printer  Requires XHTML-Print Support for documents  Requires JPEG support for images PrintBasic:2 improves printing by providing the following features for photo printing:  Layout Features  Borderless Printing  Album Pages  Photos-up printing  Index Printing (rotation)  Text Superimposed on Images (e.g., Date Print over Photo)  Trim/Crop Capabilities  Early disconnect information tracking so that mobile handhelds can leave once the data transfer was complete  Preserving User Intent on a print (e.g., conserve photo paper) PrintBasic:2 requires Enhanced XHTML-Print support for documents  JPEG support for images

XHTML-Print Guideline A guideline document supplemental to the normative XHTML-Print specification and will be included as an annex to the PrintBasic:2 specification. The guideline consists of three sections : Interpretation Rules  Specifies how PrintBasic:2 printers should interpret expressions to achieve consistent output. Usage Rules  Specifies how content should be written by clients to achieve consistent output among PrintBasic:2 printers. Templates (Reference)  Example templates provided to highlight expected output. XHTML-Print/CSS Print Profile Application Print stream PrintBasic:2 Guideline(Informative) Print Basic:2

Proposed Schedule Working Committee FormedMarch 2004 Preliminary Design (Ver 0.8)September 3, 2004 Plugfest #1 PrintBasic:2Mid-November 2004 Plugfest #2 PrintBasic:2Early-December 2004 Design Complete (Ver 0.9) – No major issues, minor editorial changes only December 2004 Technical Committee Approval (10 days)/ Start 45 Day Review December day review complete (IPR Review) End of January 2005 SC approval of specs (Ver 1.0)January 2005

Call to Action UPnP Printing is simple and valued by your customers. The Imaging Committee encourages Consumer Electronics device (Control Points) vendors to enable UPnP printing. Printer Vendors should support UPnP PrintBasic:2 providing ubiquitous photo printing.

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