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.
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