Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
Kurt Pfeifle writes:
Kurt> [...] Anyway, let me know what I can do to help testing all the Kurt> stuff... Is there a "raw" or "verbose" mode, which lets me log Kurt> every byte the printer sends back to me in the original state, Kurt> which you could use? Or is it just that you "implement a defined Kurt> standard", and look at the written MIBs to develop scli?
Yes, I actually read MIB modules. And luckily, the printer vendors seem to do the same and we agree on what we have read. ;-)
Seems to proof that Microsoft has not yet started to become involved in the printer business... ;-)
Anyway, I am also following somewhat the revision of the printer MIB recently submitted to the IETF - in fact, scli already uses extensions that are not yet published. There will also be an additional finisher MIB for printers that can do magic things once the pages have been printed.
I've access to a lot of devices like these. Let me know if I can help with anything regarding this. Vendors in my reach are (sometimes OEM versions of) Ricoh, Canon, HP, Heidelberg, EfI/Fiery -- mainly from 20ppm up to the top models...
This might become an interesting addition coming down the road at some point in time...
Yes, true.