The Printer Working Group charter is to develop standards that make printers, operating systems and applications work better.
In 1991 a consortium of printer and network manufacturers (Insight Development, Intel, LAN Systems, Lexmark and Texas Instruments) formed the Network Printing Alliance (NPA). Later members included QMS, Kyocera, GENICOM, Okidata, Unisys, Canon, IBM, Kodak, Adaptec, Tektronix, Digital Products, Pennant Systems, Extended Systems and NEC.
In 1993, the NPA was reformed as the Printer Working Group (PWG) and added HP, Compaq, Microsoft, Xerox, Xircom, Farpoint Communications, Zenith, Castelle, Fujitsu, 3M, Cirrus Logic, Amp, National Semiconductor and Ricoh.
In September 1999, the IEEE formalized an alliance with PWG as part of the IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization (IEEE-ISTO).
The PWG has supported the development of:
- IEEE 1284 parallel port specification
- IEEE 1284.1 TIPSI (Transport Independent Printer Systems Interface)
- P1394 — printing protocols for IEEE 1394
- IETF MIBs in the PRINTMIB working group
- IETF Internet Printing Protocol in the IPP working group
Read more about Printer Working Group: NPAP
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