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How to monitor Xerox printer jobs?

I'm trying to write a system for monitoring around 200 network printers using SNMP (Java SNMP4J library). The printers are mainly Xerox Phasers and Workcentres. Now, I need to get: the number of pages printed the print quality settings that was…
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How can I set up Nagios to Monitor a Canon iR 3035?

I've been googling for how to set up printer monitoring - especially for Canon printers. This is because I have a Canon iR 3035 that I want to monitor for toner problems, paper jams, and paper outages. I found a few references to config settings…
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Scripted HP printer configuration changes

I've got about a dozen Windows XP machines that I need to make a couple specific printer configuration changes to. The printer is local "virtual" printer connected to a program for an electronic document delivery service. I'd like to not have to…
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Limiting which printers a Remote Desktop Services user sees

I have an RDS server with about a dozen printers installed. Is there a way to remove all buta few certain printers for a particular user? I don't mean that I want to "secure" the other printers to keep them from printing to them, but literally…
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HP laserjet shows offline on server but is pingable

We have three HP Laserjet 9000n printers, in addition to others, networked on Server 2003 R2. The three printers are wired through a Linksys mini switch. All three printers have appropriate drivers installed and have over 6 million pages each, on…
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Repurcussions to installing printer as SYSTEM?

sigh We have an app that runs as a service as the SYSTEM on a 2K8R2 server but, the account used to run it needs to have a printer installed in its profile for certain functionality to work according to the vendor. The vendor says that if it's not…
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Are dot matrix printers still used anywhere?

I remember working as a summer IT support guy in a warehouse where orders were printed on carbon copy paper using a dot matrix printer. Are those noisy beasts still around in some special uses or is everything now using laser or thermal?
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How do I setup Printers for all Users on a Win XP workstation?

There are approx 15 User profiles on a Windows XP workstation. I want to install some network printers to all User profiles. I installed some to the local administrator account thinking I was installing them for all users. That is not the case,…
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Jobs stuck in Print Queue on print server

I have a Server 2003 machine acting as a print server for about 20 printers. There is 1 printer which we are having issues with and it has 104 documents in its queue. I have attempted the "Cancel All Documents" and tried to manually cancel…
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Printer monitoring script (PowerShell)

I am going to write a script of some sort to check event viewer in a windows server 2003 for all printjobs, and then write them to a comma delimited textfile like printername_floor_room.txt I am wondering what the best way is to do this realtime,…
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Faster way to add IP scopes to Item Level Targeting?

I have a GPO with printers mapped via the user preferences. Each printer needs to be item-level targeted only to computers in a specific IP range. I have a list of about 92 ranges that need to be added to a dozen or so printers. The only way I know…
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Issue with printer installation using GPP and printer separator file "pcl.sep"

We have a Kyocera CS 5551 ci printer that is shared on a server. The shared printer is configured to use the standard pcl.sep separator file and it has always worked. About 4 or 5 months ago if not earlier (possibly before my time in this…
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How to add printer to Active Directory in Windows Server 2016?

I have a few printers which I can view in Print Management. I have enabled in two of them "List in Directory" option, but they don't appear under Active Directory Users and Computers. Where exactly should they appear when I check "List in Directory"…
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Exporting and Importing Printer Settings using PowerShell

I am looking for a solution to export settings which were made on a specific printer which uses for example a "CAB A3 300DPI" Driver and import them afterwards on a diffrent device, which is using the same driver. To do that I want to use…
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Why is the wrong MIB being used during snmpwalk?

Running snmp walk for the following OID 1.3.6.1.2.1.43.11.1.1.9, which belongs to PRINTER-MIB under prtMarkerSuppliesLevel, is returning SNMPv2-SMI values. I imagine they are correct, but why is the SNMPv2-SMI MIB being referenced here? I'm running…
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