[cups-devel] Get printer-state-reasons ( out of paper, door is open ..etc ) before issuing a print job

[Abdelghani Ouchabane]

Hallo,
   I am trying to use CUPS API to get the printer status ( out of paper, door is open ..etc ) before issuing a print job, but I could not find a way to do that. I tried to use: 

  printer_state_message = ippFindAttribute(response, "printer-state-message",IPP_TAG_TEXT);
  printer_state_reasons = ippFindAttribute(response, "printer-state-reasons",IPP_TAG_KEYWORD);
  
  printf("printer_state_message = %s\n", ippGetString(printer_state_message, 0, NULL));

  printf("printer_state_reasons = %s\n", ippGetString(printer_state_reasons, 0, NULL));

  but it did not help, it is not clear for me how I can do it or maybe the printer driver does not support that.

Please any idea how to get printer status before issuing print job?

Many thanks in advance.

Regards
Abdelghani