scope:

ISO/IEC 10175 consists of three parts:

Part 1: Abstract service definition and procedures

Part 2: Protocol specification

Part 3: Management abstract service definition and procedures

This part of ISOEEE 10175:

- specifies the abstract syntax of the Document Printing Application access protocol;

- specifies how the Document Printing Application access protocol supports the Document Printing Application abstract service as defined in ISO/IEC 101751;

- specifies the mapping of the Document Printing Application onto the services used;

- specifies the requirements for conformance with the Document Printing Application access protocol.

The Document Printing Application is one component of a coordinated set of facilities and standards needed to satisfy the printing requirements of the modern distributed office. Together, the capabilities provided can enable users to create and produce high-quality office documents in a consistent and unambiguous manner within a distributed open systems environment.

Specifically, ISO/IEC 10175a ddressesth ose aspectso f documentp rocessingt hat enableu sersi n a distributed open systemse nvironmentt o sende lectronic documentst o shared,p ossibly geographically-dispersepdr inters, and to cause the documents to be printed in accordance with the desires of those users. For the purposes of ISO/IEC 10175, it is assumed that such documents have been composed in a form that is compatible with the destination printing system prior to their introduction to the Document Printing Application.

Other Standards deal with related aspects of document processing, such as the creation and formatting of electronic documents, and the underlying protocols used to transport electronic documents to a printing system. ISO/IEC 10175 is aligned with these related Standards as appropriate, and shares some information in common with them. Clause 2 identifies those standards that are directly applicable to this one.

The Document Printing Application defined in ISO/IEC 10175 is consistent with the model, architectural framework and design principles of the Distributed Office Applications Model (ISO/IEC 10031-l). This Document Printing Application Standard defines services and specifies access protocols available within the application layer of the ReferenceM odel (ISO/IEC 749%1 ).

The document printing application constitutes the final phase of the document processing cycle, i.e., the queuing, preparation, rendering and finishing of the fully composed form of the document on marking engines and other image generationd evices. This cycle includes other processess uch as document creation and interchanget hrough public and private networks.