Printer status in lookout

how can I Programmatically get the status of a printer connected to the LPT port.
what I need to do, is to confirm is that a page has been printed and if the printer has run out of paper or has a error

Hi,
There is no way to programmatically get the status of a printer in Lookout directly. What you could try to do though, would be to use the ASCII object and try to implement this communication yourself, you might be able to find a way to.
Best Regards
Andre Oliveira
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

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Printer Status Report

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Why does item 25 in my Printer Status Report show incorrect "Ink Install" dates? Depending on the colour, the date of installation of each ink cartridge is given as four or five days earlier than the actual date of replacement. I would have thought that the date would be exactly as per my desktop computer to which the printer is connected via a USB cable.
The printer is less than one year old and has given the incorrect dates from the moment the original set-up cartridges were replaced.

HI LincsP,
You are correct that the dates should in fact change and show the exact dates. This will not affect your ability to print or print quality at all. It may have something to do with you needing a product update. You can click here to find out how to check for a product update on your printer.
When it's time to change a cartridge next time print the Status report before you replace it and then again right after you replace it. If the same thing happens please scan the sheets and attach them to this thread for me to look at.
Let us know what happens.
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"unable to get printer status" and "server-error-not-accepting-jobs"

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Hi Mike,
One think I really dislike about OSX is the Rocket Science needed to just Print!
Might try these two...
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Printing to Default printer (it's wireless) goes to Queue in Printing Status but never prints.

My Photosmart D110a is connected wirelessly to my computer and I have it set as the Default printer running on Windows 7. It prints fine from local apps like Word. I've run the diagnostic utility and it is all good, all green check marks. When I try to print from the web (like a coupon, for example), it goes to the print queue but is stuck there in 'Printing' status. As I've been trying the troubleshooting steps, I've noticed that the Port is WSD and not an HP port. Is this part of the problem? Also, I used to have an HP Deskjet 5150 connected via USB and am wondering if it's getting confused by that somehow. Would like to remove all references to the Deskjet but I can't find a way to eliminate it.

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Problem with this out.print(status.equals(

Hi i've got another problem.
The following codes is as follows:
String status = (String)rs.getString("Status"); //status is either "O" - Open or "C" - closed
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out.print(status.equals("O"));
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try follows
out.print(status) ;
status.trim();
out.print(status.equals("O"));That won't change anything. status.trim() won't actually change status; it just returns a substring. If you actually want it trimmed, you should do this:
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To my knowledge this kind of ability wouldnt work but it all depends on the printer drivers aka "software" as when you have the printer connected to the airport express or extreme its being used via a print server where as the software included with the printer may not support such as most manufacturers intend for the printer to be connected directly. There are however some manufacturers such as hp and so on that do have printers designated as "network printers" that do have such ability to be monitored over the network via software for supplies, status n etc.
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Hello emmandell,
Welcome back to the HP Support forums. I understand that you would like to learn how to view your page count without having to print a Printer Status Report.
The information can be viewed online using the printer's embedded web server (EWS). Please follow the steps below:
1)       Press the wireless icon on the front panel of the printer to find the printer's ip address.
2)      Type the ip address of the printer into the address bar of your browser, this will bring up the EWS. I recommend that you bookmark this web page for future use. Then please click on 'Tools' tab.
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Print Status Dialog Box

In my printer simulation, I want to display a dialog box that shows the print status. It should consist of a title bar with the X button, and a message. This message will update each time I change the string it uses. An OK (actually I'd prefer a Close button) should appear after the print queue is empty. And I wouldn't mind a little info icon.
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Printing Status in PO Document

Dear expert,
How to give printing status "ORIGINAL" for the first print, "REPRINT 01" for secound print etc, in PO document if i have Z sapcript which assign in standard program (SAPFM06P) ?
Thanks before.
- ely -

Hi Anji...thanks for your replay, but i will clarify about my question before.
here the code that I used to give printing status :
FORM f_cetakan_ke TABLES in_tab STRUCTURE itcsy
                        out_tab STRUCTURE itcsy.
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      WHEN 'NAST-KSCHL'.
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and the problem occure when PO document which I printed more than one page where the program will count every page.
example :
there are 3 page of PO document will be printed for the first time, should be this document have status "ORIGINAL",
but with my program this document have an status "REPRINT 02" what wrong about my program ?
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Error message "unable to get printer status"

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Hi lizse,
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Printer status is not available at this time

Hello,
I'll try to show how the company's environment is. We have a Windows Server 2008 Standard
edition which is our File server and Print Management as well. We have a total of 5 deployed
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Hi,
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> New install of iPrint Appliance 1.0.1.69.
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