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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to check if printer is out of paper using perl script ? Post 302780263 by jim mcnamara on Thursday 14th of March 2013 08:14:35 AM
Old 03-14-2013
This is highly printer specific. You need to go to your printer manufacturer's website and find out what language/PDL/printer driver the printer uses - PCL, ps, etc.

Next figure out what the printer query string is. From the website's downloads.
Then you have to send the printer query to the printer with perl - probably via ssh.

Since you have the docset already at hand, the manufacturer may already have some kinfd of tool already written.
 

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tsm.lpadmin

tsm.lpadmin(1M) 														   tsm.lpadmin(1M)

NAME

       tsm.lpadmin - add or remove a printer for use with tsm(1)

SYNOPSIS

       printer model

       printer

DESCRIPTION

       is  used  to add (or remove) a printer to the LP spooling system when the printer is connected to the system through a terminal running the
       Terminal Session Manager (see tsm(1)).  is a shell script that uses in the normal way but also creates a named pipe to which LP	output	is
       directed (see lpadmin(1)).  This named pipe is opened by TSM and data flowing from it is sent to the printer through the terminal.

   Options
       recognizes the following options:

	      Names a printer to be created with an associated pipe.
			     If is used, must also be specified.

	      Selects a model interface program for
			     printer.	model is one of the model interface names supplied with the LP software (see the Models topic in the lpad-
			     min(1)) manual entry.  If is used, must also be specified.

	      Removes	     printer from the LP system.  No other options are allowed with

   Restrictions
       To use you must be user or

AUTHOR

       was developed by HP.

FILES

SEE ALSO

       lpadmin(1M), tsm(1).

																   tsm.lpadmin(1M)
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