Medium Document Production Instructions specify the media to
be used for document presentation and the selection of the
medium to be used for the presentation of each page image. The
result of the Medium Declaration and Selection Process is the
association of a medium with each ordinal page number. The
placement of page images on instances of the media is specified
in For web fed printers or other printers using continuous
media, an instance of the medium is considered to be that
portion of the medium on which a single page image can be
placed. Such instances of the media would be separated by the
Presentation Process after the page images are placed on them.
Presentation Processes such as softcopy devices may place page
images on virtual presentation surfaces which can then be viewed
on the physical presentation surface. In such a system each
virtual presentation surface is treated as a separate instance
of the medium. The mapping of these virtual presentation
surfaces to the physical display surface and the ability of the
system to preserve a virtual presentation surface for future
viewing are system dependent.
The specification of the media which are to be used for
document presentation is a two step process.
The presentation parameters which are affected by the Medium
Document Production Instructions are shown in Each medium which may be used for the presentation of one or
more pages is first declared by a Medium Declaration.
A medium may be specified by a medium name, by a set of
medium properties, or by a combination of medium name and medium
properties.
For some of the medium properties, the set of values for
which a meaning is specified may not include all of the possible
values of the assigned type. A MEDIUM PROPERTIES
structure element may specify a value for a medium property
which is other than one of those for which a meaning is defined
in A MEDIUM PROPERTIES structure element may also
specify medium properties in addition to those defined by this
International Standard. The effect of such a medium property is
system dependent.
The primary means of medium identification is
the MEDIUM NAME. The MEDIUM NAME may
identify either a specific medium (such as a specific product)
or a type of medium (such as ISO A4 paper). If
the MEDIUM NAME identifies a specific medium, any
additional properties are used for medium substitution only. If
the MEDIUM NAME identifies a type of medium, other
medium properties may be used to select from among the media of
that type which are available to the Presentation Process.
If a MEDIUM SPECIFICATION does not
include MEDIUM NAME value, then a medium is selected
using the medium properties. The medium properties may be
specified explicitly by a MEDIUM PROPERTIES structure
element, implied by the medium name or medium type properties,
or default values may be assumed. The medium properties which
are defined by this International Standard are shown in
The method of assigning a medium to
a MEDIUM SPECIFICATION which does not specify
a MEDIUM NAME is system dependent.
The ability of systems to select media from an available
repertoire is system dependent. There is no requirement for a
system to have any particular repertoire of media available, or
to be able to select media from a repertoire of available media.
This International Standard specifies only how a system which
can select from a repertoire of available media assigns a
particular medium to a MEDIUM SPECIFICATION.
The list of media which may be used for the presentation of a
particular page of the document is specified by the current
value of the The default value of the In addition to the media which are identified by Medium
Declarations, there is a default medium for each instance of
presentation. The means by which the default medium is
established is outside of the scope of this International
Standard.
The result of the Medium Declaration and Selection Process is
the association of a medium with each ordinal page number. The
selection of the medium to be associated with each ordinal page
number is determined by two presentation parameters:
The The If there are The If there are The Medium Document Production Instruction identifies media
which may be used in document processing.
The Medium Document Production Instruction shall be
represented by a MEDIUM DPI structure element.
A MEDIUM DPI structure element shall be a composite
structure element which shall have the following immediate
subordinates:
A MEDIUM DECLARATION structure element shall be a
composite structure element which shall have the following
immediate subordinates:
The immediate subordinates shall occur in the above order.
A MEDIUM IDENTIFIER structure element shall be a
base structure element. The value of
a MEDIUM IDENTIFIER structure element shall be of
type The effect of the Medium Document Production Instruction
shall be to append or replace an element in the
for the scope of the Medium Document Production
Instruction.
A Medium Document Production Instruction is meaningful in
any PAGE or PAGESET or in
Supplementary DPI. Any Medium Document Production
Instruction which occurs elsewhere is ignored.
If the value of the MEDIUM IDENTIFIER of
a MEDIUM DECLARATION of a Supplementary Medium
Document Production Instruction has the same value as
the MEDIUM IDENTIFIER of
the MEDIUM DECLARATION of a Document Medium Document
Production Instruction, the MEDIUM DECLARATION in the
Supplementary DPI shall take precedence.
There is no fallback required for the Medium Document
Production Instruction.
A MEDIUM SPECIFICATION structure element shall be
a composite structure element which shall have the following
immediate subordinates:
At least one of the immediate subordinates shall be present. The
immediate subordinates may occur in any order.
A MEDIUM NAME structure element shall be a base
structure element. The value of a MEDIUM NAME
structure element shall be of type The value of a MEDIUM NAME structure element shall
identify a medium as a whole. Public Object Identifier values
for MEDIUM NAME are defined
by ISO/IEC 10175 as standard values for the attribute
A MEDIUM MESSAGE structure element shall be a base
structure element. The value of a MEDIUM MESSAGE
structure element shall be of type The MEDIUM MESSAGE specifies a message which may
describe the medium, the suggested fallback action, or provide
other information. It is intended that this message be delivered
to an operator prior to and as close as possible to the printing
of the document.
A MEDIUM MESSAGE shall have no effect on medium
selection, but may effect printing management. The effect of
a MEDIUM MESSAGE on printing management shall be
system dependent.
MEDIUM SPECIFICATION processing consists of
identifying a physical medium in the environment of the
Presentation Process on the basis of the medium properties.
Medium properties are specified by
a MEDIUM PROPERTIES structure element.
A MEDIUM PROPERTIES structure element shall be a
composite structure element which shall have the following
immediate subordinates:
The immediate subordinates may occur in any order.
A MEDIUM SIZE structure element shall be
an XYDIMENSIONS structure element.
The MEDIUM SIZE structure element specifies a
value for the Public Object Identifier values for
The default value of the A MEDIUM COLOR structure element shall be a base
structure element. The value of a MEDIUM COLOR
structure element shall be of type A MEDIUM COLOR structure element specifies the
value of the The default value of the A MEDIUM WEIGHT structure element shall be a
composite structure element which shall have the following
immediate subordinates:
The immediate subordinates may occur in any order.
A MEDIUM WEIGHT VALUE structure element shall be a
base structure element. The value of
a MEDIUM WEIGHT VALUE structure element shall be of
type A MEDIUM WEIGHT TOLERANCE structure element shall
be a base structure element. The value of
a MEDIUM WEIGHT TOLERANCE structure element shall be
of type A MEDIUM WEIGHT structure element specifies the
value of the The The default value of the A MEDIUM TYPE structure element shall be a base
structure element. The value of a MEDIUM TYPE
structure element shall be of type A MEDIUM TYPE structure element specifies the
value of the The default value of the A MEDIUM TOOTH structure element shall be a base
structure element. The value of a MEDIUM TOOTH
structure element shall be of type A MEDIUM TOOTH structure element specifies the
value of the The default value of the A MEDIUM GRAIN structure element shall be a base
structure element. The value of a MEDIUM GRAIN
structure element shall be of type A MEDIUM GRAIN structure element specifies the
value of the The default value of the A MEDIUM PRE-PUNCH structure element
shall be a composite structure element which shall have the
following immediate subordinates:
The immediate subordinates may occur in any order.
A PUNCH COUNT structure element shall be a base
structure element. The value of a PUNCH COUNT
structure element shall be of type A PUNCH EDGE structure element shall be
an EDGE structure element.
A PUNCH DIAMETER structure element shall be
a DIMENSION structure element.
A PUNCH OFFSET structure element shall be
a DIMENSION structure element.
A PUNCH LOCATIONS structure element shall be
a HEAD LOCATIONS structure element. The number of
Non-Negative Numbers shall be the same as the value
of PUNCH COUNT.
A MEDIUM PRE-PUNCH structure element
specifies the value of the A MEDIUM PRE-PUNCH structure element
for which the value of PUNCH COUNT is non-zero
specifies a value for the The default value of the A MEDIUM MULTI-PART structure element
shall be a composite structure element which shall have the
following immediate subordinates:
The immediate subordinates may occur in any order.
A SEQUENCE NUMBER structure element shall be a
base structure element. The value of
a SEQUENCE NUMBER structure element shall be of
type A SEQUENCE LENGTH structure element shall be a
base structure element. The value of
a SEQUENCE LENGTH structure element shall be of
type A MEDIUM MULTI-PART structure element
specifies the value of the The A value of the A MEDIUM MULTI-PART structure element
specifies a value for the A The A MEDIUM FINISHED EDGES structure element shall be
a composite structure element which shall have the following
immediate subordinates:
A FINISHED EDGE structure element shall be a
composite structure element which shall have the following
immediate subordinates:
The immediate subordinates may occur in any order.
An EDGE IDENTIFIER structure element shall be
an EDGE structure element.
An EDGE FINISH TYPE structure element shall be a
base structure element. The value of
an EDGE FINISH TYPE structure element shall be of
type A MEDIUM FINISHED EDGE structure element specifies
the value of the A MEDIUM LABELS structure element shall be a
composite structure element which shall have the following
immediate subordinates:
The immediate subordinates may occur in any order.
A PER COLUMN structure element shall be a base
structure element. The value of a PER COLUMN
structure element shall be of type A PER ROW structure element shall be a base
structure element. The value of a PER ROW structure
element shall be of type A MEDIUM LABELS structure element specifies the
value of the The A MEDIUM LABELS structure element shall specify a
value for the The MEDIUM PROPERTIES structure element may
specify additional medium properties by means of one or
more ADDITIONAL PROPERTY structure elements. The
effect of such ADDITIONAL PROPERTY structure elements
is system dependent.
An ADDITIONAL PROPERTY structure element shall be
a composite structure element which shall have the following
immediate subordinates:
The immediate subordinates may occur in any order.
A PROPERTY NAME structure element shall be a base
structure element. The value of a PROPERTY NAME
structure element shall be of type A PROPERTY VALUE structure element may be either a
base structure element or a composite structure element.
The PROPERTY VALUE structure element shall depend on
the value of the PROPERTY NAME structure element.
The Medium Select Document Production Instruction shall be
represented by a MEDIUM SELECT DPI structure element.
A MEDIUM SELECT DPI structure element shall be a
composite structure element which shall have the following
immediate subordinates:
A MEDIUM SELECTION structure element shall be a
composite structure element which shall have the following
immediate subordinates:
These structure elements may occur in any order.
For each MEDIUM SELECT structure element, the
value of the immediately subordinate END PAGE
structure element shall be greater than or equal to the value
of START PAGE structure element, and the value of the
immediately subordinate START PAGE structure element
shall be larger than the value of the END PAGE
structure element which is subordinate to the immediately
preceding MEDIUM SELECTION (if any).
A START PAGE structure element shall be
a PAGE IDENTIFIER structure element.
An END PAGE structure element shall be
a PAGE IDENTIFIER structure element.
A PAGE IDENTIFIER structure element shall be a
base structure element. The value of
a PAGE IDENTIFIER structure element shall be of type
A MEDIUM IDENTIFIER structure element shall be a
base structure element. The value of
a MEDIUM IDENTIFIER structure element shall be of
type The effect of the MEDIUM SELECT DPI shall be to
set the value of the If there are no subordinate MEDIUM SELECTION
structure elements, the value of the
The Medium Select Document Production Instruction is
meaningful only in a DOCUMENT or in
Supplementary DPI. Any Medium Select Document
Production Instruction which occurs in a BLOCK which
is not a DOCUMENT shall be ignored.
There is no fallback required for the Medium Select Document
Production Instruction.
The Current Medium Document Production Instruction specifies
the medium to be used for the presentation of the pages of
a BLOCK.
The Current Medium Document Production Instruction shall be
represented by a CURRENT MEDIUM DPI structure
element. A CURRENT MEDIUM DPI structure element shall
be a base structure element. The value of
a CURRENT MEDIUM DPI structure element shall be of
type The effect of the Current Medium Document Production
Instruction shall be to set the value of the
The Current Medium Document Production Instruction is
meaningful in any PAGE or PAGESET or in
Supplementary DPI. If a Current Medium Document
Production Instruction occurs in both a PAGESET and
in a subordinate PAGE or PAGESET, the
Current Medium Document Production Instruction in the
subordinate PAGE or PAGESET shall take
precedence. If a Current Medium Document Production Instructions
occurs in both Supplementary DPI and
Document DPI, the Current Medium Document Production
Instructions in the Document DPI shall take
precedence for their scope.
There is no fallback required for the Current Medium Document
Production Instruction.
Medium Declaration
Medium Specification
Selection of Physical Media
Medium-list presentation parameter
Default medium
Association of Media with Ordinal Page
Numbers
Medium Selection by Medium Select
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, the
medium associated with the ordinal page number .notdef
and there is an element of
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but there is no element of
Medium Selection by Current Medium
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, the
medium associated with the ordinal page number .notdef
and there is an element of
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but there is no element of
Medium Document Production Instruction
MEDIUM DPI
MEDIUM DECLARATION
MEDIUM IDENTIFIER
MEDIUM Document Production
Instruction Processing
for the scope of the Medium Document Production
Instruction.
Medium Document Production Instruction
Reconciliation
Medium Document Production Instruction
Fallback
MEDIUM SPECIFICATION
MEDIUM NAME
MEDIUM MESSAGE
MEDIUM SPECIFICATION Processing
MEDIUM PROPERTIES
MEDIUM SIZE
MEDIUM COLOR
MEDIUM WEIGHT
MEDIUM WEIGHT VALUE
MEDIUM WEIGHT TOLERANCE
MEDIUM WEIGHT Processing
MEDIUM TYPE
MEDIUM TOOTH
MEDIUM GRAIN
MEDIUM PRE-PUNCH
PUNCH COUNT
PUNCH EDGE
PUNCH DIAMETER
PUNCH OFFSET
PUNCH LOCATIONS
MEDIUM PRE-PUNCH
Processing
MEDIUM MULTI-PART
SEQUENCE NUMBER
SEQUENCE LENGTH
MEDIUM MULTI-PART Processing
An example of a medium of the first type is fifth-cut tab
stock with all of the tabs cut in the first (or second, or
third) position. An example of a medium of the second type is
fifth-cut tab stock which is packaged in collated form (a sheet
of tab stock with the tab cut in the first position, followed by
a sheet of tab stock with the tab cut in the second position,
etc.).
MEDIUM FINISHED EDGES
FINISHED EDGE
EDGE IDENTIFIER
EDGE FINISH TYPE
MEDIUM FINISHED EDGES
Processing
MEDIUM LABELS
PER COLUMN
PER ROW
MEDIUM LABELS Processing
ADDITIONAL PROPERTY
PROPERTY NAME
PROPERTY VALUE
Medium Select Document Production Instruction
MEDIUM SELECT DPI
MEDIUM SELECTION
START PAGE
END PAGE
PAGE IDENTIFIER
MEDIUM IDENTIFIER
Medium Select Document Production Instruction
Processing
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for all values of Medium Select Document Production Instruction
Reconciliation
Medium Select Document Production Instruction
Fallback
Current Medium Document Production
Instruction
CURRENT MEDIUM DPI
Current Medium Document Production Instruction
Processing
Current Medium Document Production Instruction
Reconciliation
Current Medium Document Production Instruction
Fallback