[cups] programmatically detect network printer power state
Brian Potkin
claremont102 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 1 11:07:55 PDT 2016
On Thu 26 May 2016 at 18:56:00 +0000, Boncek, John wrote:
> With CUPS 1.7.2 under Ubuntu 14.04, I am able to programmatically add
> a network printer (an HP Officejet Pro 6230) at a socket IP address
> and port combination, make it the default printer, and send jobs to
> it. Now I want to programmatically detect whether the printer is on
> or off, but I haven't been able to find a way to do that. Regardless
For a printer directly connected to the network you could probe for its
IP address with nmap or ping.
> of whether the printer is on or off, CUPS seems to always report that
> the printer is Idle, Accepting Jobs, etc. How can I detect the power
> state (if there is a way)?
I think CUPS reports the state of the print queue.
> By the way, my messages to the list seem to unwrap into one very long
> line (I've seen some messages by other people that are also like that)
> - is that a limitation of the list or is there something I can do
> better? I use Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.
It is not due to a limitation of the list.
Regards,
Brian.
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