Subject: PMP> FW: Accessing PrintMIBs on a locally connected Printer

From: "McDonald, Ira" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 13:44:10 -0800

Hi,

Does anyone know of a printer that exposes the Printer MIB over
a parallel port?  See Will's note and my reply below.

Cheers,
- Ira

Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: [email-masked]

-----Original Message-----
From: McDonald, Ira 
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 11:41 PM
To: 'Will Paul'; McDonald, Ira
Subject: RE: Accessing PrintMIBs on a locally connected Printer

Hi Will,

To the best of my knowledge, there are no printers made that run
an IP suite stack over their 1284 parallel port.  (And therefore
none that you can ask for the Printer MIB using SNMP on parallel).

There is a separate IEEE 1284.1 (TIPSI) management protocol (_not_ 
SNMP) and a later IEEE 1284.3 and 1284.4 (based on HP's MLC packet
protocol over parallel).  The management parts (as opposed to job
submission parts) were never widely implemented (read, most vendors
don't do the IEEE 1284 management interfaces).

IEEE 1284 stds cost money (visit IEEE or ANSI).  They are generally
not available free on the Internet.

If the 1284.x drivers (which _are_ available for Windows and MacOS)
support requesting status, you can get basics, but I don't think
you can get to the Printer MIB except via Ethernet, TokenRing,
or IEEE 802.11 (Wireless Ethernet, aka Wi-Fi) running an IP stack.

Cheers,
- Ira

Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: [email-masked] 

-----Original Message-----
From: Will Paul [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 9:10 AM
To: [email-masked]
Subject: Accessing PrintMIBs on a locally connected Printer

Hi Ira

I subscribe to the PWG newsletter and I find it extremely useful.  I am
working on a project where I need to read printer mibs from a locally
connected printer (via the parallel port) and I have not been able to figure
out how to do this.  I have no problems reading mibs when the printer is
networked.

Can you point me to any URL's.  Any help is very much appreciated since I
have hit a dead end.

Thanks
Will