scope:

ISO/IEC 10175 consists of three parts:

Part 1: Abstract service definitions and procedures

Part 2: Protocol specification

Part 3: Management abstract service definition and procedures

This part of ISO/IEC 10175:

- specifies a client-server model of printing in accordance with the D istributed-office-applications Model (ISO/IEC 10031-1);

- specifies functions and services provided by Document Printing Application servers;

- specifies the Document Printing Application abstract service using the principles established by the Abstract Service Definition Conventions (ISO/IEC 10021-3);

- specifies the usage of other services.

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 10175 addresses those aspects of document processing that enable users in a distributed open systems environment to send electronic documents to shared, possibly geographically-dispersed printers, 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 Docu ment 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 i nformation in common with them. Clause 2 identifies those standards that are directly applicable to this one.