How to get really printer status

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Mon Mar 26 06:54:03 PDT 2007


JM Marino wrote:
> ...
> Ok, and what library can I use to do this ?

That depends entirely on the printer.

For a network printer, you'll need to send printer-specific query
commands to interrogate the printer or maybe use SNMP queries,
depending on the info you need.

For locally-connected printers, you'd probably use the corresponding
character device to interrogate the printer with printer-specific
commands, but bidi support is not widely available except for serial
printing.

-- 
______________________________________________________________________
Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
Internet Printing and Document Software          http://www.easysw.com




More information about the cups-devel mailing list