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NANY 2010 Release: Page Countster
Stoic Joker:
Hm... I had rather gotten used to that. The Email report really just spits the contents of a .csv file into an Email...which is all I really need for our billing system. I've been in the habit of hitting the replace "Extra" (according to Outlook...) line breaks and then pasting it to a text file for the billing system.
This may take some time, but I should be able to add the HTML code to the output stream to format the whole thing into a presentable table. Currently the toner levels are not stored in the reports, so I'm assuming that you would like those included in the HTML Email also, yes?
I was also thinking about adding the option to the context menu to pull the current display text from the printer. This would allow you to actually just see an error message instead of having to get user X to read it to you (there is a tendency for end users to "round-off" the error message and the .xxx is usually important). Does that sound usefull?
techidave:
first answer is yet for toner levels.
the last paragraph, I am not following what you mean. Does this mean when an error is showing on the control panel display, I could then see it from within your program?
can you just add a "print screen" to your program? maybe that would save some time.
Stoic Joker:
the last paragraph, I am not following what you mean. Does this mean when an error is showing on the control panel display, I could then see it from within your program?-techidave (December 14, 2009, 02:54 PM)
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Basically, yes. Any of the standard textural message that show up on the printer's display (Ready, Tray X Empty/Open, Cartridge Door Open, & etc.) can be queried for by polling their message buffer(s). It's identical to the text output of the Printer Status program I posted earlier in this thread.
For the most part it would be a waste of time/screen space (I think) to pull that info for a regular scan. But if you get stuck on the phone trying to troubleshoot something on the other side of campus, it might be handy (I thought) to be able to dump the printer's display (text only) so you can see the error message the user is trying to describe.
can you just add a "print screen" to your program? maybe that would save some time.
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Some printers have the ability to stream the display as a .gif which is a live screen shot of the printers graphical display...but I'm afraid that would take more time than I have.
techidave:
I wouldn't worry too much about the print screen functionality at this point in time. It would be nice but probably not worth the effort. Unless some others would like it too. I can just use excel to print it.
Since my users don't normally print a huge amount so being able read the display is a big deal for me. not yet anyway.
techidave:
It's interesting how my Xerox DocuPrint N2125's page counts shows up under the Color Page Count column. It also doesn't report the serial number.
But I would bet this is just how that model is programmed.
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