On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, John Perkins wrote: JP> SNMP status monitoring improved that situation tremendously. We don't JP> have printers that will report "idle" for 1/2 seconds in the middle of JP> a job, as far as I know.
You may want to test. I did a stress test. Like opening the cover, ripping out the paper trays and so on, during a job. I managed to get small gap where the printer was so confused of what was going on, that when going from "down" to "printing", it stopped by "idle" for 0.5 seconds. JP> SNMP, at least on our Xerox Phaser 5400 and HP LJ 4050/4100/4500/8100 JP> printers, has a job status OID to query, and a job in progress will JP> still show "printing" there even if the display shows "Idle". It JP> would be interesting to verify these status bits remain in an "in JP> progress" mode until the job actually completes. The display is rather irrelevant, what does hrDeviceStatus and hrPrinterStatus report when the job status OID shows "printing". ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
