[IPP] Page count and serial number attributes?

[IPP] Page count and serial number attributes?

Michael Sweet msweet at msweet.org
Tue Dec 10 22:59:04 UTC 2024


John,

> On Dec 10, 2024, at 5:39 PM, John Madden via ipp <ipp at pwg.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I was inquiring about receiving page counts (BW or Color) attributes from a printer supporting IPP version 2.
> 
> I have tried printer-pages-completed but apparently my printer does not support this as it does not return a value.
> 
> I have seen a job-impressions-completed, job-media-sheets-completed, and a job-pages-completed but assumed these were job specific?

They are, but if the printer supports them and a sufficiently large amount of job history you can use them to calculate the number of pages printed over a specific time.

> Also, is there a printer-serial-number attribute in IPP version 2?

Yes, although it is defined as part of the Enterprise Printing Extensions (PWG 5100.11) and is not widely supported.  You can also look for a serial number in the "printer-device-id" attribute...

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Michael Sweet



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