<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Apr 20, 2009, at 8:57 PM, ronaly agdeppa wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Yes, bonjour can automatically detect the printer. There is no problem detecting my printer. In the printer setup utility in mac, there is also a portion there that the user can choose to manually type ip address of the printer. Then the OS auto detects what PPD to use when it matches. I guess it does not use bonjour. Any idea if cups has something to do in this case?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>CUPS isn't involved with printer identification from the Mac OS X IP printer pane.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br><blockquote type="cite">ronaly wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">How are you able to get the modelname of the printer? Is it through<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">1.3.6.1.2.1.25.3.2.1.3.1 OID alone?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">No, we also use the ppmPrinterIEEE1284DeviceId OID<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(1.3.6.1.4.1.2699.1.2.1.1.2.1.1.3)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">As I mentioned below the returned<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">value for that OID though has the modelname but also appended with<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">additional information of the printer.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">We do try to filter out identifying information (MAC address, etc.)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">In Mac OS X, we can determine<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">that the printing system is not able to match the printer and the<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Host because it cannot automatically create a print queue. Does cups<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">handles the print queue creation in Mac OS X?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">No, and SNMP model detection is not used. Bonjour is the protocol<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">that you need to support on the Mac.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">______________________________________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products mike at easysw dot com<br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>cups mailing list<br><a href="mailto:cups@easysw.com">cups@easysw.com</a><br>http://lists.easysw..com/mailman/listinfo/cups<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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