[cups.general] Printer not Queue Status

Alex Finch A.Finch at lancaster.ac.uk
Thu Jul 7 04:37:02 PDT 2005


  You can do this for most printers with snmp, for example we use:

  Xerox 4400

snmpget <ip address> public .1.3.6.1.2.1.43.16.5.1.2.1.1


Hewlett Packard 4250

snmpget   <ip address> public 43.16.5.1.2.1.1


lexmark Optra c710

snmpget   <ip address> public .1.3.6.1.2.1.43.16.5.1.2.1.1


I worked out the numbers using
snmpwalk <ip address> public

combined with guesswork!

It generally corresponds to whatever the lcd panel is saying.

Anonymous wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> we're migrating from a lpd printing system to cups with heavy use of the lpd or jetdirect backend.
> What we're really missing is a way to ask the current status of an associated printer.
> Is there a integrated way to ask the printer status (not queue)?
> E.g. in a lpd system 'lpstat' queries the queue and returns tha actual status of the underlying printer.
> 
> Thank's in advance
> Andreas
> 
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  Alex Finch, Research Fellow, Physics Department, Lancaster University.





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