[IPP] Page count and serial number attributes?

[IPP] Page count and serial number attributes?

John Madden jpmsparks at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 11 00:59:59 UTC 2024


Thank you for the reply.

Our thinking has been that IPP returns so many usable attributes that it 
closely approximates the value we would get from using

SNMP, without having to deal with vendor-specific MIBs. One of the last 
areas we would probably need would be page count(s).

Is there any documentation on which print vendor(s) implement the RFCs 
most completely?

On 12/10/2024 5:59 PM, Michael Sweet wrote:
> 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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