| Class Finishings is a printing attribute class, an enumeration, that
identifies whether the printer applies a finishing operation of some kind
of binding to each copy of each printed document in the job. For multidoc
print jobs (jobs with multiple documents), the
MultipleDocumentHandling MultipleDocumentHandling attribute determines what constitutes a "copy"
for purposes of finishing.
Standard Finishings values are:
The following Finishings values are more specific; they indicate a
corner or an edge as if the document were a portrait document:
The STAPLE_XXX values are specified with respect to the
document as if the document were a portrait document. If the document is
actually a landscape or a reverse-landscape document, the client supplies the
appropriate transformed value. For example, to position a staple in the upper
left hand corner of a landscape document when held for reading, the client
supplies the STAPLE_BOTTOM_LEFT value (since landscape is
defined as a +90 degree rotation from portrait, i.e., anti-clockwise). On the
other hand, to position a staple in the upper left hand corner of a
reverse-landscape document when held for reading, the client supplies the
STAPLE_TOP_RIGHT value (since reverse-landscape is defined as a
-90 degree rotation from portrait, i.e., clockwise).
The angle (vertical, horizontal, angled) of each staple with respect to the
document depends on the implementation which may in turn depend on the value
of the attribute.
The effect of a Finishings attribute on a multidoc print job (a job
with multiple documents) depends on whether all the docs have the same
binding specified or whether different docs have different bindings
specified, and on the (perhaps defaulted) value of the
MultipleDocumentHandling MultipleDocumentHandling attribute.
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If all the docs have the same binding specified, then any value of
MultipleDocumentHandling MultipleDocumentHandling makes sense, and the
printer's processing depends on the
MultipleDocumentHandling MultipleDocumentHandling value:
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SINGLE_DOCUMENT -- All the input docs will be bound together as one output
document with the specified binding.
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SINGLE_DOCUMENT_NEW_SHEET -- All the input docs will be bound together as one
output document with the specified binding, and the first impression of each
input doc will always start on a new media sheet.
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SEPARATE_DOCUMENTS_UNCOLLATED_COPIES -- Each input doc will be bound
separately with the specified binding.
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SEPARATE_DOCUMENTS_COLLATED_COPIES -- Each input doc will be bound separately
with the specified binding.
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If different docs have different bindings specified, then only two values of
MultipleDocumentHandling MultipleDocumentHandling make sense, and the
printer reports an error when the job is submitted if any other value is
specified:
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SEPARATE_DOCUMENTS_UNCOLLATED_COPIES -- Each input doc will be bound
separately with its own specified binding.
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SEPARATE_DOCUMENTS_COLLATED_COPIES -- Each input doc will be bound separately
with its own specified binding.
IPP Compatibility: Class Finishings encapsulates some of the
IPP enum values that can be included in an IPP "finishings" attribute, which
is a set of enums. The category name returned by
getName() is the IPP attribute name. The enumeration's
integer value is the IPP enum value. The toString() method
returns the IPP string representation of the attribute value.
In IPP Finishings is a multi-value attribute, this API currently allows
only one binding to be specified.
author:
Alan Kaminsky |
