Summary
CUPID (Consortium for University Printing and Information Distribution) is
an informal and open consortium of universities interested in the distributed
printing over the Internet of finished, high-quality, production
documents.
CUPID is concerned with the support at remote sites of most or all of the
services performed by the production printshop or central reprographics
organization of a college or university. Achieving this objective will depend
upon the widespread availability of advanced function, networked printers such
as the Xerox Docutech or the Kodak Lionheart, although distributed applications
may also make use of lesser function networked printers.
CUPID has set itself a primary task of defining a suite of protocols and
network services that can be used as the core and foundation for a variety of
applications. The objective is to extract from these applications that which is
common, so as to avoid duplicate and costly development and to encourage the
use of shared and open protocols.
This document proposes a general architectural framework for the initial set
of CUPID protocols and services, to be used as a basis for providing detailed
functional specifications and programming specifications.
CUPID is sponsored by the Coalition for Networked Information. Steve Hall
(Harvard) chairs the overall CUPID Committee. The CUPID Architecture
Subcommittee prepared this architectural overview.
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