ISO DPA: Current-job-state This attribute identifies the current state of the job (pending, processing, held, etc.)

Print clients and DP-Servers shall be prepared to receive all the standard job states. DP-Servers are not required to generate all job states, only those which are appropriate for the particular implementation.

It is not conformant for an agent to return the unknown value if the job's state can be determined.

If a server implementation or policy is to start processing documents before the last Print request (with a TRUE value for the job-submission-complete parameter) and the value of the job's job-scheduling attribute is not after-complete, the server shall change the job's current-job-state from pre- processing [building] directly to the processing state when the server begins processing any of the job's documents.